有了图书馆,你是自由的,不受暂时政治气候的限制。它是最民主的机构,因为没有人——绝对没有人——能告诉你该读什么、什么时候读以及如何读。
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
你应该做一些你热爱并且认为非常重要的事情。
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.
每个词都承载着所有未被说出的词的重量。