Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们最大的幸福并不取决于机遇给我们带来的生活条件,而始终是问心无愧、身体健康、职业发展和一切正当追求自由的结果。

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

朋友可以互相帮助。一个真正的朋友会让你完全自由地做你自己,尤其是去感受。或者,没有感觉。不管你此刻的感觉如何,他们都能接受。这才是真正的爱——让一个人成为他真正的自己。

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

我大胆地追求知识,从不害怕遵循真理和理性,无论它们导致什么结果,并承担一切阻碍他们的权威。

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

如果我们希望使自己摆脱奴役,我们就必须选择自由和由此而产生的责任。

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

电影不是一个容易的职业。有很多职业是很难的,电影就是其中之一。

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

人生最大的光荣从来不来自于失败,而是来自于每次失败后都能站起来。

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

和平是这个核时代生存的一个条件。

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

做诗人是一种条件,而不是一种职业。

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

我想,我现在的职业是囚犯。

Haste does not result in prosperity.

欲速则不达。

My greatest asset now is my focus.

我现在最大的财富就是我的专注。