"Language is the house of being."
语言是存在的居所。
想象力是打开可能性之门的钥匙。
"We must constantly challenge our assumptions and be willing to change our minds."
写作是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得它不重要,你就不会费心去做。
Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your home town or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
正因为当初对未来做了太多的憧憬,所以对现在的自己尤其失望。生命中曾经有过的所有灿烂,终究都需要用寂寞来偿还。