Human freedom is bounded by its choices.

我宁愿活得好像有上帝，死后发现没有，也不愿活得好像没有，死后发现有。

I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

最黑暗的夜晚孕育最亮的星星。

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

解释：治理河道，要用疏导的办法使其通畅；治理百姓，要引导百姓使其敢言。