1.Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要與幻想為伍；當幻想消逝，你仍存在著，但你卻已不再活著。

2.Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
每天做一些你所不想要做的事；這是養成不帶痛苦地盡責任的習慣的最好辦法。

3.I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
在我的人生中曾經遭遇一些可怕的事，其中的一些實際上已發生了。

4.Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
勇氣是對恐懼的抗懼，掌控恐懼，而非期待沒有恐懼。

Mark Twain, US humorist, author, & wit, 1835 – 1910