If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
The only way to understand history is to live it.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
解释:德行不够优良的人,难以有崇高的信念与理想。才能不够突出的人,难以有渊博的知识和见解。
The hardest challenges often lead to the greatest breakthroughs.