The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

解析：金玉满堂，无法守藏；如果富贵到了骄横的程度，那是自己留下了祸根。

We are all haunted by the ghosts of our past.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

We are all mosaics of genetic inheritance.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.