We must balance the need for energy security with the urgency of reducing emissions.

生活不仅仅是呼吸，而是行动。

The most dangerous weapon is not the one that kills, but the one that changes minds.

我被那些处于十字路口的角色所吸引。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.