Always keep your knife sharp, your wits sharper, and your spirit sharpest.

愚蠢的时间由时钟衡量，但智慧的时间：没有时钟可以衡量。

I don't sing for entertainment. I sing for the woman who has been through hell and back.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

文学的价值在于它能够让我们体验他人的生活，从而更好地理解自己。

The man who is fit to work at any particular trade is unable to understand the science of that trade without the kindly help and cooperation of men of a totally different type of education.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...