And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

人们害怕他们不理解的东西，憎恨他们无法征服的东西。

和颜悦色，善意待人，就会亲如兄弟；恶声恶气，粗暴待人，比使用兵器更加伤人。管子的这些话对当今的社交活动、公共关系和人际交往仍有重要的借鉴意义。

我们今天开采的矿物也必须服务于后代的需求。

在科学中，真理往往存在于不同学科的交汇处。

La musique exprime ce qui ne peut être dit et sur quoi il est impossible de rester silencieux.

你越了解自己，对你在别人身上看到的东西就越有耐心。