I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

我不想永远活着，但我确实想在我活着的时候好好生活。

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

Suffering is the school of wisdom.

骄傲的核心特征是敌意——对上帝的敌意和对同胞的敌意。

I'm not a model. I'm just a girl who likes to dress up.

The process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow on the field.