It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  • -- Grace Murray Hopper 格蕾丝·赫柏

请求原谅往往比请求允许更容易。

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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

在这本书的前面有一个说明,说没有得到作者的许可,公众不得阅读。这件事应该做得比这困难得多。

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

我问为什么我是黑人,他们说我生在罪恶中,为不公平而羞愧。我们过去在教堂唱的一首主要歌曲让我感到恶心,“爱洗涤我,我将比雪更白。”

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

宽恕并不总是容易的。有时候,原谅伤害我们的人,比我们所受的伤害更痛苦。然而,没有宽恕就没有和平。

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

我一直觉得演戏是一种逃避,就像拥有每扇门的秘密钥匙,可以进入任何领域,沉浸其中。我喜欢那张免费通行证。

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

被拒绝是不好的,而且无论你在职业生涯的哪个阶段,被拒绝都不会变得更容易。

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

成功只是运气的问题。问任何一个失败。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

让自己变得开放,生活会变得更容易。

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

有时候,失去的财富是可以找回来的。