我对自己是谁、做什么非常有信心。

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Every ton of ore we extract carries with it a responsibility to the future.

Music is my way of making sense of the world.

【译文】杀人一万，自己也要损失三千。说一句伤害别人的话，就像用刀割别人的心一样。

The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names.

【原文】子夏为莒父宰，问政。子曰：“无欲速，无见小利。欲速则不达，见小利则大事不成。”【译文】子夏到莒父做地方长官，问怎样为政。孔子说：“不要只求速成，不要贪图小利。想求速成，反而达不到目的；贪图小利，就做不成大事。”

Writing is a way of making the invisible visible.