Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

Learning from failure is more valuable than celebrating success.

我认为最重要的是忠于自己和自己的愿景。

一个人的信念必须超越自我和个人需求，它可以是自己的公司、祖国或服役义务。任何因信念和核心价值观的激励而选择的挑战都是值得的，无论最终的结果是成功还是失败。

The walls of a garden should be high enough to keep the world out, but low enough to let the sky in.

伟大的公司建立在伟大的产品之上。

好的小说告诉我们角色的真相；伟大的小说告诉我们自己的真相。