在所有民主主义国家，国民将会持有等同于自己水准的政府。

"The best advice I can give is just to be yourself and have fun."

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

杰夫·贝索斯

There is only so much of fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off.

一个人真正需要的财富就那么一点点，其余的都是用来炫耀的。

温斯顿·格鲁姆

心理学的价值在于其解释生活的力量。

The value of psychology is in its power to explain life.

马克斯·维斯塔潘

省躬讥诫，宠增抗极。

周兴嗣

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

当你遇到反对时，即使它来自你的丈夫或你的孩子，也要努力通过争论而不是权威来克服它，因为依赖权威的胜利是不真实和虚幻的。

罗素