歐內斯特·海明威/Ernest Hemingway
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest—it is a tangled yam.
Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their ture selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within beginning to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
風平浪靜的海麵上，人人都可以成為舵手。
然而，沒有陰影隻有陽光，沒有痛苦隻有快樂，那根本不是人生。即便對於最幸福的人來說，生活也隻是一團糾纏的紗線。
親人的死亡和上天的賜福交替而來，讓我們既悲傷又快樂。即便死亡本身也會讓人生顯得更加可愛，在悲傷及失去的陰影下，人生清醒的時刻，人們才最接近他們真實的自我。
在生活或事業中，智力所發揮的作用不及品格，頭腦不及心境，天才不及由判斷力所規範的自製、耐心和紀律。
我一直相信，內心生活越嚴謹的人，他的外在生活越儉樸。在這個奢侈浪費的時代，我希望能讓人們知道，人類真正的需求是多麽少。
悔恨自己的過失，並做到不再犯錯，才是真正的悔過。超越他人算不上什麽高尚，真正的高尚在於超越自我。