She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The best illustrations are those that leave room for the reader's imagination.

我不知道女人总能因美貌而得到好处，倒觉得美貌通常会令她们受罪。

幸福不是现成的东西。它来自你自己的行动。

The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.

森林的真正价值不能仅用板英尺来衡量。

经过无数代人的努力，你才达到了现在的水平。也许需要一点感激之情。如果你要坚持让世界按你的方式弯曲，你最好有自己的理由。