我从来没期望过他会对我青睐有加，虽然如今我已拥有许多我不曾奢望过的东西。其实很多时候，他们都是那么悄无声息地降临到我的生活中，我甚至都不曾去寻找过。 - 每日文摘

家国两愁绝，人天一粲然。只余心独在，看汝更千年。世界几痕梦，微尘万座莲。之后凭吊意，分付此山川。

谭嗣同

历史不会宽恕那些在关键时刻退缩的人，我们必须勇敢面对挑战，哪怕这意味着要与整个世界为敌。

赫鲁晓夫

孤独两个字拆开，有孩童，有瓜果，有小犬，有蚊蝇，足以撑起一个盛夏傍晚的巷子口，人情味十足。稚儿擎瓜柳蓬下，细犬逐蝶深巷中。人间繁华多笑语，唯我空余两鬓风。孩童水果猫狗飞蝇当然热闹，可都与你无关，这就叫孤独。

林语堂

人类思考用的是故事，而不是事实、数据或方程式。

瓦尔·赫拉利

才华是一种潜在的能力，只有通过勤奋的努力才能实现。

米开朗基罗

生活中的许多事物，并非越浓越好，而是需要恰到好处的把握。

毕淑敏

I have a vivid memory of what happened， and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff， you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates， figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." That's not what happened. Instead， my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying， my grandfather， who had been driving in silence， pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble？ My grandfather was a highly intelligent， quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me， and maybe this was to be the first time？ Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me， and after a bit of silence， he gently and calmly said， "Jeff， one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."

我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。我本期待着小聪明和算术技巧能赢得掌声，但那并没有发生。相反，我的祖母哭泣起来。我的祖父之前一直在默默开车，把车停在了路边，走下车来，打开了我的车门，等着我跟他下车。我惹麻烦了吗？我的祖父是一个智慧而安静的人。他从来没有对我说过严厉的话，难道这会是第一次？还是他会让我回到车上跟祖母道歉？我以前从未遇到过这种状况，因而也无从知晓会有什么后果发生。我们在房车旁停下来。祖父注视着我，沉默片刻，然后轻轻地、平静地说："杰夫，有一天你会明白，善良比聪明更难。"