世界是一个舞台，但演员选得不好。 - 每日文摘

We must always remember that behind every data point is a human life waiting for hope.

我们必须永远记住，每一个数据点的背后都是一个等待希望的生命。

秋花惨淡秋草黄，耿耿秋灯秋夜长。已觉秋窗秋不尽，那堪风雨助凄凉！助秋风雨来何速！惊破秋窗秋梦绿。抱得秋情不忍眠，自向秋屏移泪烛。泪烛摇摇爇短檠，牵愁照恨动离情。谁家秋院无风入？何处秋窗无雨声？罗衾不奈秋风力，残漏声催秋雨急。连宵脉脉复飕飕，灯前似伴离人泣。寒烟小院转萧条，疏竹虚窗时滴沥。不知风雨几时休，已教泪洒窗纱湿。

曹雪芹

蔚蓝天上，桃色的云，徐徐伸着懒腰，似乎春眠未足，还带着惺忪的睡态。流水却瞧不过这小姐腔，它泛着潋滟的霓彩，唱着响亮的新歌，头也不回地奔赴巨川，奔赴大海……春是烂漫的，春是永远的向着充实和完成的路上走的。

苏雪林

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。

阿兰·德波顿

追根究底，我们最基本的共同联系是我们都生活在这个小小的星球。我们都呼吸着相同的空气。我们都珍惜我们孩子的未来。我们都是凡人。

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.