I write songs to heal myself and others.

译文：有才能而没有权势，即使是贤人也不能制服不肖之徒。所以把一尺长的木材树立在高山之上，就能俯瞰万丈深渊，这并不是木材长，而是因为它所处的位置高。

你放弃的那一刻，就是你让对手赢的那刻。

People can't do something by themselves; they wanna tell you you can not do it.

"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."

创新不是让事情变得更复杂，而是让事情变得更简单可靠。

Memory is not a perfect recorder of events; it is a reconstructive process that can be influenced by many factors.

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.