你的暴怒，让我懂得自己正确。你的掩饰，让我相信自己正直。你的疯狂，让我看见自己清醒。你的杀戮，让我知道自己活着。 - 每日文摘

你必须忠于自己，永远不要让任何人夺走你的光芒。

You have to stay true to yourself and never let anyone take away your light.

布兰妮·斯皮尔斯

爱一个人不应该只为了满足自己的需求，而是为了给予真挚的感情。

杨沫

用人不可不慎。才不称事，事何以立。

薛瑄

人人自有定盘针，万化根源总在心。却笑从前颠倒见，枝枝叶叶外边寻。

王阳明

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"