The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
最幸福的人并不是拥有一切最好的东西，而是能把一切做到最好。
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."