The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

"The past is always present in the stories we tell."

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

在不幸中所表现出来的勇气，通常总是使卑怯的心灵恼怒，而使高尚的心灵喜悦的。