It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
You're going to have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're going to get.
Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.
——〈在广州岭南学生欢迎会上的演说〉,1923年12月21日