Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

没有什么比常识和朴实无欺更使人吃惊的了。

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My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

我的人生经历变得越来越丰富和美好。我做的事情越多,我谈论的事情就越多——有孩子,旅行,经历关系问题,处理我自己家里的事情。所有这些都能塑造性格。

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

没有人费心去阅读和理解这些书——再说一遍,我不是在虚张声势——但我认为我们的书是伟大的文学作品,用伟大的隐喻描述了现实生活中的恐惧和希望。

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

那时我的读者还是文人;但必须有其他人等着读我的诗。

Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.

男人总是迷失,他们困惑和害怕,因此他们比他们的价值更多的麻烦。

Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

常识就是看到事情本来的样子,做应该做的事情。