If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. (AL Jaber)

　　寶石即使落在泥潭里，仍是一樣可貴；塵土縱然揚到天上，還是沒有價值。(賈比爾)

　　Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. (Strong)

　　與其詛咒黑暗，不如燃起蠟燭。(斯特郎)

　　A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (J. Burroughs)

　　一個人可以失敗許多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪別人，他還不是一個失敗者。(巴勒斯)

　　Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. (Carlyle)

　　工作是醫治人間一切病痛和疾苦的萬應良藥。(卡萊爾)

        At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. (B. Franklin)

　　二十歲時起支配作用的是意志，三十歲時是機智，四十歲時是判斷。(富蘭克林)

　　Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C. Nepos)

　　要選擇行動的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。(內波斯)

　　When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ( R. Browning)

　　當一個人內心開始斗爭時，他就有了價值。(布郎寧)

　　There is only one success --- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (C. Morley )

　　只有一種成功，那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的一生。(莫利)

        We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ( Martin Luther King, Jr.)

　　我們必須接受失望，因為它是有限的，但千萬不可失去希望，因為它是無窮的。(馬丁。路德。金)

　　We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old but more like ourselves. ( M. L. Becker )

　　隨著年齡的增長，我們并不變得更好也不變得更壞，而是變得更象我們自己。(貝克爾)

　　One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (A. Schweizer)

　　有一點我是知道的：在你們之中，只有那些愿意尋求發現如何為別人服務的人，才是真正幸福的。(施韋策)

　　The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Goethe)

　　人生重要的在于確立一個偉大的目標，并有決心使其實現。(歌德)