脸上有个污点，别人见了都暗自发笑，而自己还不知道，一旦有人直言相告，马上就用手拭去。如果还说：「我脸上有污点，与你有什么关系？」就不合乎人之常情了。可是当别人指出自身的缺点错误时，人们的态度为何就不是这样呢？

In the silence of reading, we find the loudest truths.

最重要的是忠于自己，忠于自己的声音，忠于自己的愿景。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.