Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.

U.S. energy independence doesn't mean isolation - we're still part of global markets.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

释义：如果只听取某一个人的意见或只依赖某一个人，就容易产生奸邪之事；如果独自决断、只任用某一个人，就容易引发祸乱。

宣判死刑之人应当亲自挥剑。

The only thing I can rely on is my own perception, and that is always changing.

I'm not bossy. I'm the boss.

我们都被过去的幽灵所困扰。

诗人是个伪装者。他伪装得如此彻底，以至于假装成他真正感受到的痛苦。