父亲们最根本的缺点，在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。

预测未来的最好方法是去实现它。

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

解释：受宠而不骄横，骄横而能安于下位，地位在下而不怨恨，怨恨而能克制的人，是非常少见。