· 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.

　　困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。

　　· Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine

　　失敗乃成功之母。

　　· For man is man and master of his fate.

　　人就是人，是自己命運的主人。

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

　　混混噩噩的生活不值得過。 -- 蘇格拉底

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

　　只有每天再度戰勝生活并奪取自由的人，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

　　命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。因此，讓我們毫無畏懼，滿心愉悅地把握命運 - 尼克松

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

　　生活沒有目標，猶如航海沒有羅盤。-- 羅斯金

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

　　沒有了目的，生活便郁悶無光。 -- 喬治 · 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過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。

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

　　沒有偉大的意志力，便沒有雄才大略。 -- 巴爾扎克

　　· The good seaman is known in bad weather.

　　驚濤駭浪，方顯英雄本色。

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