如果你没有偶尔失败，说明你不够努力。

学校必须是一个让孩子学会将眼前欲望服从于更大社会利益要求的地方。

"The desert teaches you that emptiness can be full of meaning, if only you learn to read the silence."

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.