To be a writer is to be a spy on life.
成为作家就是成为生活的间谍。
Making music is not about pleasing others, but about expressing yourself.
如果我不是生为拿破仑,那我就想生为亚历山大。
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the human personality.