成年人会努力争取，成年人会付出努力，成年人会承担后果。 (Grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay. Grown-ups suffer consequences.)

你不是不能挣脱，你只是不愿意挣脱。 (You are not stuck because you can't, you're stuck because you won't.)

胜利属于那些意志坚强、持之以恒的人。 (Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest.)

当人有飞的渴望时，他绝不会满足于爬。 (One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.)

真正悲伤过的人都是心存善念的。 (Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.)

我感觉自己张开双手站在一片沙漠中，你如雨水般降临在我身上。 (I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.)

艺术乃贮存人类灵魂的蜂蜜，由痛苦和辛劳的翅膀采集。 (Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.)

信仰，就像恐惧和爱一样，是一种决定我们人生走向的力量。 (Belief, like fear or love, is a force that determines the course of our lives.)

成为一个伟人很伟大，但是成为一个充满人性的人更伟大。 (It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.)

身在井隅，心向璀璨。 (We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the star.)

历史往往对那些为了今天而牺牲明天的人作出严厉的判决。 (History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. )

一个人的故事被记住了，他就千古不朽。 (When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.)

尽管最终又回到平凡的生活，人们还是钟爱那些在无畏岁月里看到曙光的人。 (Although come back to normal life, we still admire those who see the daylight in fearless years.)

如果利用得当，书籍就是最好的朋友；反之，如果滥用，它就会变成最坏的东西了。 (If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst.)

能和一个人坐在一起而不必交谈真好。 (It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.)