To understand a forest, you must listen to it—not just with your ears, but with your heart.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them.

心灵就像一位画家，能够描绘出整个世间。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.