Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
幸福的家庭生活像一个美妙的仲夏之夜；内心安宁，身边的一切都闪耀着独特的光芒。
I'm not going to let anyone else's opinion of me define who I am.
At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"
我一直努力忠于自己和我的价值观。
教人学习却坚持有天命的观点，这就好像叫人包起头发来却有去掉了他的帽子。
写作是让看不见的东西变得可见的一种方式。
未来属于那些相信自己梦想之美的人。