Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

这不是结束，甚至这也并非结束的序幕已然到来，但或许，这是序幕已经结束！

君子不是生来就比普通人高明，而是因为他们善于借助外物的力量，为自己所用。善于运用外在条件来弥补自身的不足，也是制胜之道。

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

未来不是固定的；它是我们可以用知识和行动塑造的东西。

"Poetry is the art of making the invisible visible."

【译文】 子夏说：“重贤轻色、尽心孝顺父母、尽力献身国家、交朋友言而有信的人，即使没有高等学历，我也认为他已经受到了良好的教育。”

最好的投资是那些能够创造未来的人。