1.Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要与幻想为伍；当幻想消逝，你仍存在着，但你却已不再活着。

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；这是养成不带痛苦地尽责任的习惯的最好办法。

3.I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
在我的人生中曾经遭遇一些可怕的事，其中的一些实际上已发生了。

4.Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
勇气是对恐惧的抗惧，掌控恐惧，而非期待没有恐惧。

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