一本书是一面镜子；如果一只猴子往里看，不会有哲学家往外看。

The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.

爱比恐惧更强大。

The past is a map, showing us where we have been.

A story can change a life—maybe even the world.

"The world is made of stories, not atoms."

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.