18. Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.
19. From the very day of the capitulation, by which Bismark’s prisoners had signed the surrender of France but reserved to themselves a numerous bodyguard for the express purpose of cowing Paris, Paris stood on the watch.
20. When I’m having trouble with a story and think about giving up, or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way my mother did.
21. What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?
22. Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe.
23. It needs men who can be prompted without an aim except the aim to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.
社会需要这样的人:他们只为一种目标所激励,即积极行动、恪尽职守、奋发向上。
24. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure.
25. We can expose our children to the best values we have found.
我们能够让孩子接受我们所发现的最佳价值观。
26. In short, you will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
简言之,你如何去行动就看你如何想象自己。
27. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.
对我们来说,一个成功者即代表个人又是社会的一份子,他的真实表现是可信、可靠、机敏、真诚。
28. Those most loved invariably those who have the capacity for believing in others.
那些信任别人的人总是最受人爱戴的。
29. Americans who stem from generations which left their old people behind and never closed their parents’ eyelids in death, and who have experienced the death provided by two world wars fought far from our shores are today pushing away from them both a recognition of death and a recognition of the way we live our lives.
30. Certainly the humanist thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who are our ideological ancestors, thought the goal of life was the unfolding of a person’s potentialities: what mattered to them was the person who is much, not the one who have much or uses much.
31. How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression, the quiver of a muscle, the flutter of a hand.
32. Her woebegone expression, her hang-dog manner, her over-anxiousness to please, or perhaps her unconscious hostility towards those she anticipated will affront her-all act to drive away those whom she would attract.
33. There is a very long list of such “perhapses”, few of which we are in a position to evaluate with any degree of assurance.
我们可以将这类“也许”排满一张长长的单子,其中,我们能够有把握加以评估的却很少。
34. If marriage exists only as an intimate relationship that can be terminated at will, and family exists only by virtue of bonds of affection, both marriage and family are relegated to the marketplace of trading places, with individuals maximizing their psychological capital by moving through a series of more or less satisfying intimate relationships.