Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
最终,我们记住的不是敌人的话语,而是朋友的沉默。
Happiness is a good flow of life; the conviction that you are taking part in the universe's purpose.
The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.