我们甚至不知道自己有多强大，直到我们被迫将那种隐藏的力量展现出来。在悲剧、战争、需要的时刻，人们会做出惊人的事情。人类生存和更新的能力是惊人的。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

你可以拥有一切，只是你不可能马上拥有一切。

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

时间在被小齿轮滴答作响时是死的；只有当钟停止时，时间才会复活。

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.