The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

最好的故事是那些让你感觉充满希望的故事。

活着就意味着终有一死。活着就意味着每时每刻都是一个幸存者。

精神生活不是否定的生活，而是肯定的生活。

The highest title which a man can write upon the page of history is his own name.