How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

跨越国界和学科的合作是解决世界上最紧迫的健康挑战的关键。

You can‘t reason someone out of a notion that they didn’t reason themselves into. 

译文：读书人一定要把圣贤的诗书作为安身立命的根本，为人处世要恪守孝悌，胸怀仁义。赏析：无数圣贤流传下来的思想，读书人应该去学习，因为它是我们做人的根本。古人就提出孝、悌、礼、仪、忠、信、廉、耻为待人处事的准则。

创新不仅仅是创造新事物，而是带来改变。

小说应该是一本问题的书，而不是答案的书。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

解释：才华有高下之分，没有古今之别；文章有真实、虚伪之差，没有新旧之异。