There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
一年中的夜晚与白天数量相同、持续时间一样长。即使快乐的生活也有其阴暗笔触，没有“悲哀”提供平衡，“愉快”一词就会失去意义。耐心镇静地接受世事变迁，是最好的处事之道。
The only way to predict the future is to create it.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
我不让恐惧控制我，我让它挑战我。
所有的经典都说到，为了获得解脱，人应该让心智安静；所以它们的最终教导就是心智应该被安静下来；一旦理解了这一点，就不需要没完没了地阅读经典了。
History is not just about the past, it is also a mirror of the present.