The first step to getting what you want is having the courage to get rid of what you don’t.

我不是一个想成为明星的女孩，我只是一个唱歌的女孩。

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know life is a complex matter.

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.  

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

出自先秦《荀子·非相》。赠人以有益之言，比赠人以金石珠玉更显珍贵。说明有益的建言对他人事业人生的助益作用。