You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being — not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money — but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
一切并未失去。
写作是一种勇气，因为它要求我们面对自己内心最深处的恐惧和欲望。
"The truth is, you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.