The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
事实是,我们直到看到它才知道自己想要什么。
——〈民权主义第五讲〉,1924年4月20日
I am not interested in the unique, but in the banal.