I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

我总是回避传统智慧，尽管我知道它的力量。

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

我开始相信，我过去所有的失败和挫折实际上都为我现在享受的新生活水平打下了基础。

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

我发现运气是可以预测的。如果你想要更多的运气，就要抓住更多的机会。更活跃。经常出现。

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

我学到....机会从不落空;有人会拿走你错过的。

Ideas are the source of all things.

思想是一切的源泉。

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

如果我必须再活一次，我也会犯同样的错误，只是会更快。

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

如果我能有所贡献，如果我能更多地看到终极善的本质和本质，如果我能受到启发去开拓更广阔的思想和行动视野，如果我能平静地面对自己，那么今天就是成功的一天。

If I were to remain silent, I''d be guilty of complicity.

如果我保持沉默，我就犯了同谋罪。

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

如果一个人能实现他一半的愿望，他的麻烦就会加倍。

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它。

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

智慧人行事谨慎，怎能被仇敌制伏呢?即使一个人，只要行动得当，也能战胜一大群敌人。

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

如果生是生的表现，死是另一种表现。

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it.

如果空虚是空虚的，怎么能忍受或从空虚中醒来呢?

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

如果空虚是无尽的，那么一切都在空虚中休息。

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

如果我的生活一切顺利，那么我就会开始读更多的报纸，开始担心我无法处理的事情。他们说，智慧是知道什么是你能修复的，什么是你不能改变的。我非常不明智的。