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.

世间的一切事情，都是由人的内心产生的。

在你做出决定的时刻，你的命运就被塑造了。

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.

You cannot escape your freedom.