The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

天下没有几百年不出现弊端的制度，也没有永远不变的法律

I believe in the power of love and kindness.

人们永远不会注意到已经做了什么；人们只能看到还有待完成的事情。

"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."