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.

我们必须敢于梦想，并将这些梦想转化为现实。

The key to solving complex problems is breaking them down into simpler ones.

我们写作不是因为我们想写，而是因为我们不得不写。

事实上，自然科学长期以来只是大脑和想象力的产物：现在是时候回归到对物质和显而易见事物的朴素而健全的观察了。

The true value of a forest isn’t just in its timber, but in its ability to sustain life.

我喜欢雇用有实际行动的人。我经常雇佣那些与我意见有出入的人。