尽管我曾冒失莽撞,但我既不是个说谎者也不是个懦夫,而我的心所犯下的罪孽,我的笔是不会去否认它的。
The first duty of a man is to think for himself.
You don’t have to be defined by the things you did or didn’t do in your past.
海洋不仅仅是一种资源;它是一种责任。我们今天如何对待它,将决定我们为后代留下的遗产。
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.