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.

Liberty is obedience to self-imposed law.

释义：兰花生长在无人的山谷，不会因为没人佩戴而不散发芳香；船在江河湖海上，不会因为没有人乘坐而不浮在水上；君子行使自己的道义，不因没有人理解而停止。

所有老人共同的大秘密是，在七八十年里，你真的没有改变。你的身体变了，但你一点都没变。

Business is about people, and understanding people is the key to success.

孔子说：“富和贵，人人向往，不以正当的方法得到的，不要享受；贫和贱，人人厌恶，不以正当方法摆脱的，不要逃避。君子扔掉了仁爱之心，怎么算君子？君子时刻不会违反仁道，紧急时如此，颠沛时如此。”

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.