Greatness is not about being the best, it's about being better than you were yesterday.
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
君子给人的印象有三种变化:远看庄重威严,接触则温和可亲,听讲话则严肃不苟。
过去的33年里,我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天,我会想做今天将要做的事吗?”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时,我知道我需要改变一些事情。