我们常常认为贫穷是缺钱，但它也是缺乏信息和机会。
We often think of poverty as a lack of money, but it’s also a lack of information and opportunities.
我认为能够自嘲并且不过于认真对待自己是非常重要的。
To write is to resist the erosion of time.
智者和愚人都没有害，最危险的倒是智愚参半。
当一盏灯熄灭时，比它从未亮起时要黑暗得多。
人是自己的囚犯。
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.