You have to be willing to put in the time, the effort, and the energy to be great.

I don’t need approval, I need results.

对认可的渴望，灵魂中的激情部分，是灵魂中最具政治相关性的部分。

It is not, nor cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

译文：用镜子照自己可以看见形体容貌，用心性照自己，可以遇见祸福吉凶。赏析：以铜为镜可以正衣冠，以心为镜可以知吉凶。我们要努力提高自己的文化修养，砥砺自己的品格，与人为善，人生就会少很多祸患和不祥。

道人是非长短者通常枯燥乏味，但当他谈起自己时却往往妙趣横生。

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.