力量在于平衡：我们既是我们的伤害，也是我们的成功。
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
The final test of a novel is whether you care so much for the people that you want to know what happens to them next.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.