尽力而不能达到的，圣人不会苛责于人。应当尽心而未尽心，圣人不会推御责任。

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance. Do things that you don't know you can't do.

The poet’s task is to make the silence speak.

我对自己很有竞争意识。我总是试图突破自己的界限。

未来取决于你今天做什么。

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

在你年老之前，尽可能多地参加你能承受的葬礼，并仔细倾听。没有人会谈论逝者的成就。人们唯一会记得的是你在取得成就时是个什么样的人。