And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

我在网球上取得的成就是伟大的，但我作为一个人是谁更重要。

最好的文学总是颠覆性的，动摇既定秩序，质疑权威。

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

"The past is a story we keep rewriting, even when we don’t realize it."

历史学家必须是诗人，不是为了创造，而是为了重新创造。

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

如果我知道我会在哪里死去，那我一辈子都不会去那里。