If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

  • -- Thomas a Kempis 金碧士

如果你不能完全按照自己的意愿塑造自己,你怎么能指望别人完全符合你的喜好呢?

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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

我过去常常想,要是能到行星上去看看该有多好。当然,我没有料到在我有生之年会发生什么。我知道它总有一天会发生,但它来得比我最初想的要快。

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

对于一个比你更聪明的疯子,一个对你的论点给予公正的听审,然后又固执己见的疯子,你能做些什么呢?

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

人们——尤其是白人——因为我的生活方式,他们希望我成为一个榜样。我在歌中所说的一切,他们都期待着我。

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

你是否曾有过这样的感觉:世界是一件无尾礼服,而你是一双棕色的鞋子?

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.

人们很容易忘记人是血肉之躯。他们并不是坚不可摧的。

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

听一些虔诚的人说,你会以为神从来不笑。