If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
如果一个人只希望幸福，这很容易实现；但我们希望比别人更幸福，这总是困难的，因为我们相信别人比他们实际更幸福。
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
戏剧应该是镜子，而非画作。
为自己的原则而战比实践这些原则要容易。
The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives.
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.