What is a man but his mind?
人无头脑，何以为人？——Clarke

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.　
笑，这世界与你同笑；哭，独自去哭吧。
——E.W.Wilcox

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
当一个人内心开始斗争时，其生存才有价值。——Robert Browning.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.　
把握过去的人也把握未来，把握现在的人才能把握过去。——George Orwell.  

Optimism is an intellectual choice.　
乐观是明智的选择。
——Diana Schneid

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.　
一个人的命运模式主要是由自己决定的。
——Francis Bacon

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.　
智慧通常不出现，所以我们不能因为它来得晚就拒绝它。——Felix Frankfurter

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.　
死后仍活在人们心中的人，虽死犹生。
——Thomas Campbell

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.　
我认为至少每隔三年就得提醒自己谨慎行事。——Molly Ivins

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
长远看来也许悲观者是正确的，但乐观者在路上会过得更愉快一些。
——Daniel L. Reardon

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves
如果我们不能忍受独自一人，这意味着我们不能好好珍惜我们从生到死的唯一伙伴—我们自己。——Eda LeShan

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.　
趁别人小题大做之前赶快承认错误。
——Andrew V. Mason

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. 　
智慧让你远离需要智慧才能应付的处境。
——Doug Larson

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.　
悲观主义者抱怨有风，乐观主义者期待变天，现实主义者调整船帆。
——William Arthur Ward

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
上帝就像一面镜子。镜子从不变化，但每个照镜子的人都会看到不同的东西。
——Rabbi Harold Kushner

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener.
好思想结好果实，坏思想结坏果实—人可以做自己的园丁。——John Sculley

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
如果你赢不了，就帮你前面那个破记录吧。
——Jan McKeithen  

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
我们知道的最大的喜悦是偷偷地做件好事，而被人偶然发现。——Charles Lamb

What are the aims which at the same time are duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.
什么既是目的又是职责呢？那就是，使我们自己完美，使别人幸福。
——I'mmanuel Kant

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
有时我们需要提醒自己，心怀感激实在是一种美德。——William J. Bennett

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
不要让任何人以为他没有影响力。
——Henry George

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
某种笨拙是借用他人思想的标志；但是一旦我们学会运用这些思想，他们便成为我们自己的东西了。——Emerson

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
道德文化有可能达到的最高境界是认识到我们应该控制自己的思想。
——Charles Darwin

Politeness is like an air cushion:There may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
礼貌就像一只气垫，里面可以什么也没有，却能奇妙地减轻颠簸。——SamuelJohnson

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
沉默并不是智慧的标识，但唠叨永远是一项愚行。——Benjamin Franklin  

To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
注重智慧、真理和魂进步远比追求金钱、荣誉和名胜要好得多。——Socrates

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
真理是无情的，但也可以很可爱，它使爱它的人自由。——Sartre  

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
不懂得你沉默的人也不懂得你的语言。
——Elbert Hubbard

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
满足所得，但不能满足现状。
——J. Mackingtosh

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
美丽而引人注目的东西不一定都好，好的东西不一定都美丽。——L'Enclos

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.　
生活教会了我去思考，但思考却没有教会我怎么去生活。——Alexander Herzen

Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的价值是思想行动，而非寿命长短来衡量的。——Avebury  

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
真正的幸福指的是我们如何开始，而不是如何结束；指的是我们渴求什么，而不是我们拥有什么。——R.L.Stevenson

Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不花费你一分钱，却能助你赢得一切。
——Montagu

There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.　
一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。
——G.K.Chesterton

That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
令你难以忍受的痛苦的事情可能带给你以甜美的回忆。——Fuller

Life is too short to be wasted in hatred, revenge, fault-finding, prejudice, intolerance and destruction.
人生短暂，不容我们把时间浪费于仇恨，复仇，吹毛求疵，偏见，偏狭和破坏上。
——W.A.Peterson

It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.　
并非考究的衣饰使人成为绅士。
——Thomas Fuller

Wisdom is a tree that grows in the heart, and it's fruit appears upon the tongue.　
智慧是一棵树，生长于心中，果实结在舌上。——Friedrich Diez