What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.

我们做什么对我们很重要。工作可能不是我们生活中最重要的事情，也不是唯一的事情。我们可能工作是因为我们必须工作，但我们仍然想要去爱，去为自己的工作感到自豪，去尊重自己，去做出改变。

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

无论我们玩什么游戏，我们都不能和自己玩游戏。

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

当我拿着铲子走进花园，挖了一张床，我感到如此的兴奋和健康，我发现我一直在欺骗自己，让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

我们从哪里得到这样一个疯狂的想法:为了让孩子们做得更好，首先我们必须让他们感觉更糟?回想一下你最近一次感到羞辱或受到不公平待遇的情形。你想合作还是做得更好?

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

没有自我认识，没有理解机器的工作和功能，人就不能自由，他就不能管理自己，他将永远是一个奴隶。

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

没有自信，我们就像摇篮里的婴儿。我们如何才能以最快的速度产生这种不可估量的、但又是无价的品质呢?认为别人不如自己。

Trust your gut.

相信自己的直觉。