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.

The greatest reward in research is knowing that your work can save lives.

情感不仅仅是反应；它们是我们内心状态的有力指标，并且可以显著影响我们的决策过程。

和那些叫喊饥饿的人相比，那么吃饱了自然就快乐；和呼叫寒冷的人相比，那么得到温暖自然就快乐；和患病者相比，那么健康就会快乐；和祸患者相比，那么平安就快乐；和死去的人相比，活着就会快乐。

足球的进步不仅仅取决于球员的技术，还取决于比赛的精神。