我不是悲观主义者。我是一个受过现实主义训练的乐观主义者。

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.

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."

唯一能让你快乐的是做你热爱的事。

如果你出生贫穷，那不是你的错。但如果你死时仍然贫穷，那就是你的错。