Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

活着是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

创新不是颠覆传统，而是在传承中突破，在稳健中前行。

"The power of a story lies not in its truth, but in its ability to make us believe."

文章之所以不能断绝于天地之间，是因为它能够阐明道理，记录政事，体察民间疾苦，乐于称道他人的善行。

"El tiempo no cura las heridas, las convierte en cicatrices que nos definen."

Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your home town or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.