独处的能力就是爱的能力。这对你来说可能看起来矛盾，但事实并非如此。这是一个存在的真理：只有那些能够独处的人才有能力去爱，去分享，去深入另一个人的最深处——而不占有对方，不依赖对方，不将对方物化，不对对方上瘾。
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
The value of unpaid work is often invisible in economic measures, yet it is the backbone of society.
无偿工作的价值在经济衡量中常常不可见，但它却是社会的支柱。
农业的成功来自于理解自然，而不是与之对抗。
人类的未来掌握在那些能够将智慧和美的火炬带入黑暗中的人手中。