The quality of your attention determines the quality of your life.
The desire to be loved is perhaps the most deeply rooted of all our vanity.
所以天将要把重大任务落到这个人身上,一定先要使他的心志痛苦,使他的筋骨劳累,使他的身体饥饿,使他的身子穷困,并且使他的每一行为总是不能如意,借此来使他的内心震动,坚韧他的性情,增加他的才干。
The historian must have a kind of faith that humanity will not and cannot perish.