我希望我的书能帮助孩子们以不同的方式看待世界，注意到那些微小的细节和隐藏的意义。

War is an ugly thing， but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war， is much worse.

懦夫从不启程，弱者死于途中，只剩我们前行。

别让他人的意见淹没了你内心的声音。

Life is like a dance; we should move freely with the rhythm of the music.

释义：听得多了，看得多了，才能够体察出事物中的精要，才能够选择事物好的一面进行学习，选择正确的道理进行遵从。