The more you do, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you can do.

我越是坚决地以自我存在于时代的条件中，我就越清晰地听到过去的语言，越感受到世纪的气息。

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom。

传统哲学家的争论大多既无根据又无果。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

做自己，不要为了讨好别人而改变自己。