Challenges are opportunities in disguise; embrace them with courage.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

在一个不自由的世界里，唯一的应对方式就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。