自己
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
I'm in control of my life.
To collect is to gather things to yourself, to take things from the world and make them part of your own story.
"The stories we tell about others are often the stories we tell about ourselves."
"We are all the sum of our stories, and biography helps us understand the equation."
One’s attitude to oneself is the single most important factor in living a long and reasonably happy life.
The past is a mirror, but we often see only what we want to see.
Every nation is a story it tells about itself.
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend to remember."
Every life contains its own mysteries, and the biographer must respect the unknowable.
"We see what we want to see, and believe what we want to believe."
"We are all prisoners of our own minds, but some of us have built stronger cages than others."
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
We read to know we are not alone.
The hardest person to forgive is always yourself.
Every family is a haunted house in its own way.
We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.
"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.