No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Serving your country is an honor, not a right.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

人生的主要任务是诞生自己，成为我们潜在的样子。