It’s possible that a not-so smart person， who can communicate well， can do much better than a super smart person who can’t communicate well. That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

People tend to value things more highly when they own them.

即使会被众人当成恶棍，你还会做对的决定吗?….我宁愿被认为是一个赢家而非一个好队友。我希望能同时兼顾两者，但是这是不实际的…. 我和那些懒惰的人 ─ 那些只会将自己没有成功的原因怪罪于他人的人─ 并没有任何共同点。