The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

说真话的最大好处是没有人会相信它。

写作就是重写，重写就是理解。

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

我相信每一次表演都应该是独特而特别的。

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

我不是说唱歌手，我是一个梵语的传奇。

恐惧是迷信的主要根源，也是残酷的主要根源之一。战胜恐惧是智慧的开端。

The future belongs to those who can adapt and evolve.