The character of a building is determined by the way it is used, not by its appearance.

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

驯服囚犯最管用的办法，就是让他相信自己是自由的。If you

文学是一面镜子，反映我们的形象，也是一扇窗户，让我们看得更远。