The dead don’t rest if the living don’t let them.

Love is the only thing that can fill the eternal emptiness of the human heart.

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

历史不仅仅是一系列事件，而是人类经验和情感的复杂网络。

每天都要努力变得比起床时聪明一点。忠实而出色地履行职责。你会有条不紊地出人头地，但不一定会一蹴而就......最后，如果你活得足够长，大多数人都会得到他们应得的。