我们都受到自己天性的束缚。

故事是理解他人的方式。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

——1963年6月25日在西德市政厅柏林墙前的演说

想要得富贵福泽，这要看天意，由不得自己；要想成为贤人君子，主要靠自己，由不得天意。