"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Pleasures， then， and the avoidance of pains， are the ends that the legislator has in view.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world； everything degenerates in the hands of man.

经济学的奇妙任务是向人们展示，他们对自己想象中能够设计的东西知之甚少。

我不让挫折定义我。