The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

要真正伟大，必须与人民站在一起，而不是凌驾于他们之上。

The light of reason is different from the light of nature.

理解另一种文化的唯一方法是假设那种文化的参照框架。

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

个人是所有文学的起点。