Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运,不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

那些管理着大量事务的人通常不喜欢考虑和执行新项目。因此,最好的公共措施很少从以前的智慧中采取,而是因势利导。

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

我在这里没有什么神奇的原因。你完全没有理由不能去你想去的地方。如果这能发生在我身上,你也能。我很荣幸能帮助你们做到这一点。

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

艾滋病毒携带者仍然受到歧视。感染率正在上升。人死亡。政治上的反应令人震惊。它的悲伤,它的浪费。

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

一个人的一生中会发生一些事,这些事在记忆中刻骨铭心,难以忘怀。

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

你能给我的最高的赞美就是,我每天都努力工作,从不偷懒。

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

我不喜欢被骗,所以我只会在愚蠢的事情上撒谎。善意的谎言。

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

美好的事物本质上都是转瞬即逝的。正是那些带给我们挥之不去的悲伤。

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

我可以选择快乐,也可以选择每天痛苦——直到死去。