The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

我不在乎别人怎么说，我要做我想做的事。

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.