I want to run a good race, to run a good time, and to enjoy it.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
我们把男人当成神,他们却离我们而去;有些把男人当成畜生,他们反倒摇尾乞悯,而且忠心耿耿。
The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate from the things that are not ourselves, so that we can become ourselves.
有时候最简单的想法是最有力的。