精金美玉般的品性，一定是经历过了，烈火一样的磨砺才修成的；惊天动地的大事业，必须要有履薄冰临深渊般的胆识和魄力，才能成就。
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。
To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux.
不光染丝是这样，国家也会被染。
The novel is a form of exploration, a way of mapping the unknown territories of the human heart.
