悲观主义者的决定性特征是，他们倾向于相信坏事会持续很长时间，会破坏他们所做的一切，并且是他们自己的错。

永远不要低估一个互相信任的团队的力量。

人生的真正意义在于种树，虽然你并不期待坐在树荫下。

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

奢侈者常嫌不够富足，节俭者虽贫穷却有余藏；奢侈者心常常贫困，节俭者的心常常富贵。

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.