You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

50岁重建事业并不容易——但值得的事情从来都不简单。

The desire to get rich is a natural human instinct, and it's not something to be ashamed of.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

诗歌不是一个封闭的领域，而是一个开放的领域。