不想当个美国白痴。

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

我们必须相信，我们在某事上有天赋，并且必须实现它。

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.  

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

一切东西的真实价格，即对于想要获得它的人来说真正付出的代价，是获得它所付出的辛劳和麻烦。

A picture must be a thing in itself, not a representation of something else.