· All things in their being are good for something.

　　天生我才必有用。

　　· Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

　　困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

　　· Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine

　　失败乃成功之母。

　　· For man is man and master of his fate.

　　人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

　　· The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates

　　混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底

　　· None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus

　　只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

　　· Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon

　　命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松

　　· Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin

　　生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金

　　· What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot

　　没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特

　　· Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

　　-- Lincoln

　　卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

　　· There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac

　　没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克

　　· The good seaman is known in bad weather.

　　惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

　　· Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman