The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate from the things that are not ourselves, so that we can become ourselves.
思想掠过我的心上,如一群野鸭飞过天空。我听见它们鼓翼之声了。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.