生活就是当你忙于制定其他计划时发生的事情。

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

Understanding the real lives of the poor is the first step toward designing effective policies to help them.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

我相信任何人的生命都值得被叙述，甚至值得文学的照亮。

你必须感觉到你已经拥有了你想要的东西，这种感觉会将它带入你的现实。