Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

有些人看到事情的本来面目，会说:“为什么?”我梦想着从未有过的事情，我说:“为什么不呢?”

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...

每个高尚的梦想中最好的东西是梦想家……

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

未来就在这里，现在，过去充满了实际的行动，真实的历史。乌托邦者的骨头上几乎没有肉来维持一个民族在坟墓时代。

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

人的灵魂对理想的需要比现实的需要更大。我们是通过真实存在的;我们生活在理想之中。

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是真、善和美……在我看来，人类奋斗的普通目标——财产、表面上的成功、奢侈——总是可鄙的。

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

唯一能克服一种思想和信仰的力量是另一种更好的思想和信仰，积极地、无畏地坚持下去。

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

在通往毁灭的道路上，从来都伴随着对理想的口惠而实不至。

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

在政治上，有时你必须站在正确的一边而失败。

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

没有一个爱的梦想，不管它有多理想，最终不会有一个肥胖贪婪的婴儿挂在乳房上。

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

思想是雕刻家，它能创造出你想成为的人。

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

奋斗过，努力过，为某些理想而奋斗过，这些都是值得的。

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

对我来说，成功意味着在这个世界上的有效性，我能够把我的想法和价值观带到这个世界上——我能够以积极的方式改变它。

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

思考和完全活着是一样的。

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

我们瞄准目标，瞄准目标。

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

我们都倾向于用自己的理想来评价自己;其他人，通过他们的行为。