每个人都是天才。但如果硬要以鱼儿爬树的本领，来评估它的能力，它这辈子都会觉得自己是条蠢鱼。

人之所以为人，是必须充满精力，自我悔改，自我反省，自我成长，并非向人抱怨。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

释义：事情已经到了非常急迫的地步，需要立即采取行动来应对，而顾不上其他长远或次要的事情。比喻事情急迫，先行救急。