品诣常看胜如我者，则愧耻自增；享用常看不如我者，则怨尤自泯。
常看修养品德胜过我的人，则惭愧耻辱油然而生；常看物质享受不如我的人，则埋怨情绪自然消失。
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
The first sentence of the novel is the most important, but the last sentence is the one that stays with you.
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
"The past is never truly gone; it lives on in the choices we make today."