每天花点时间为自己做些事情。 - 每日文摘

那首古老的歌谣，还真的在我耳边响起：学士、硕士、博士、烈士……原来Ｓ师大的导师们，真的在干这种毁人不倦的肮脏勾当！

徐小平

害虫叮人不是出于恶意，而是因为它们要维持生命。批评家也一样他们需要我们的血而不是痛苦。

尼采

蓬生麻中，不扶而直；白沙在涅，与之俱黑。

飞蓬生长在麻地里，不用扶持也能挺立；白沙混进黑色泥土，也会跟着一起变黑。

荀子

The measure of a good book is whether or not it makes you see the world differently.

衡量一本好书的标准是它是否能让你以不同的方式看待世界。

奥尔罕·帕慕克

人不要为虚荣而活，而要为实质而活。人不要为手段活着，而要为目的活着。

徐小平

Simplicity is not simple to achieve.

简单并非易事

安妮·拉卡顿和让-菲利普·瓦萨尔

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。"