我一直相信最重要的事情是对自己真实。

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

译文：我本来是一介平民，在南阳务农亲耕，只想在乱世中苟且保全性命，不谋求在诸侯之中闻名显达。

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.