人类生活中痛苦和混乱的主要来源，似乎来自于高估了一种持久状况与另一种持久状况之间的差异。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The farmer is the cornerstone of our civilization.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

一个人固守道德而不能发扬光大，信仰主张又不能坚定不移，这种人有他不能算有，没有他不能算无。

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.