译文：忍让一时就会风平浪静，退让一步就会海阔天空。赏析：我们要看透人间事，不必去和别人争输赢，较高下，该忍让时就认怂，该退步时就妥协。学会忍让和退步，其实也是一种生活智慧，也是一种生存之道。

My biggest opponent is myself.

To utter a performative is not to make a statement， and therefore the utterance of a performative is neither true nor false.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

The true value of a forest cannot be measured in board feet, but in the breath of the planet.