不用圆规和曲尺，就不能画出方形和圆形。比喻做事要遵循一定的法则。

我宁愿正确也不愿保持一致。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

国会议员对职位的热情非常强烈，即使不是绝对不名誉的。

You don’t build a business, you build people, and then people build the business.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

合作常常能带来个人努力无法实现的突破。

The voice of indigenous communities must be heard in forest conservation efforts.