Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

-- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

谦卑是一种优雅，它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒，但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒，因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

医生告诉菲尔，我当时的丈夫，我的病情确实是个坏消息。他们发现一条动脉撕裂，说我可能会死。他们说他们可以试着修补，但可能会出现严重的错误。最后一切都很顺利，但也只是碰碰运气。

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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

当我们不愿在自由社会和恐惧社会之间划清道德界限，当我们不愿称前者为善，称后者为恶时，我们将无法推动和平事业，因为和平不能与自由分离。

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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

死亡来了，而不是幸福。因为当你试图寻找快乐的时候，你是在一个非常、非常模糊的雷区中航行，雷区充满了干扰、失望和欺骗。这就是为什么你必须为幸福而努力。

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

对我来说，教育是学生灵魂深处的一种引导。对麦凯小姐来说，这是对一些不存在的东西的投入，而这不是我所说的教育。我称之为入侵。

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Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

恩典是我们每一个人每天都能得到的——我们属灵的每日粮——但我们必须记得带着感恩的心去求，不要担心明天是否有足够的食物。

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Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

科学家们总是会一头扎进海洋，但我想带一些作家和政治家，他们能够传达那里的美，或许还能做些什么来保护它。

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My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

我女儿是一个善良、有爱心、富有同情心的人。对我来说，这才是成功的真正含义，即使婚姻并不成功。我和女儿的成功才是最重要的。

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There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

上帝每天都在为我做一些事情，这让我陷入了思维的困境，因为我知道在我的内心深处，我不配得到这样的恩典。我不应该得到那样的休息。

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Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

听着，这是世界上最大的谜团之一，我不能回答这个问题。我想我有点金发。坦白地说，我不知道。

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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

如果一个人为自己的手艺感到骄傲，你就不会让一件好东西死掉。因为不够努力而冒险并不谦逊。

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I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

我希望我的故事，我希望我的生活是…对人们的鼓励，尤其是在布鲁克林。我感到谦卑和幸福。

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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

一个人对自己的性格、信息和能力的赞扬，也许比他所谴责的更可靠。

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

除了传授之外，很少有知识是可以保留的;这颗贵重珠宝的光彩在隐藏中消失了。

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I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

我希望我的语言不是那么糟糕。这是我不能做的一件事，那就是骑马。

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Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

我想做的就是倾听我的声音，因为我的声音就是我的老板。她决定。

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

众所周知，当幽默羞怯地推进时，美是不会以优雅的姿态出现的。

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The sun shines on those who are standing before it shines on the people kneeling under them.

太阳照在身前的人身上，也照在身下的人身上。

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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

幸福不取决于任何外在条件，它取决于我们的心态。

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Sometimes you just have to hold your head up high, try not cry, and say goodbye.

有时候你只需要高昂着头，试着不哭，然后说再见。

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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

无论贵贱，人们的一个显著特征就是爱花。

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Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

新思想常常被研究和分析，直到它们被扼杀。

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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

我们已经知道的往往阻碍我们学习。

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Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.

命运和自助在塑造我们的命运中是平等的。

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I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

我没有任何偏见。我同样恨每一个人。

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Life is too short, to waste time hating anyone.

人生苦短，不要浪费时间去恨任何人。

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Shame is Pride’s cloak.

羞耻是骄傲的外衣。

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I'm a big bath person.

我喜欢洗澡。

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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