18. Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.

　　我們希望富有創造性地生活在我們繼承的這個世界家庭當中，這種希望存在于我們重新建立人類個性和社會公平方面的生活道德目標的能力之中。

　　19. From the very day of the capitulation, by which Bismark's prisoners had signed the surrender of France but reserved to themselves a numerous bodyguard for the express purpose of cowing Paris, Paris stood on the watch.

　　從法國投降那一天起，巴黎就嚴加戒備，因為屈從于俾斯麥的法國政府簽約投降時，保留了一支相當龐大的軍事力量，目的是為了威脅恐嚇巴黎。

　　20. When I'm having trouble with a story and think about giving up, or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way my mother did.

　　每當我寫文章遇到困難想打退堂鼓時，或是自嘆不走運時，我就往那臺破舊的打字機里卷進一張紙，像媽媽當年一樣，一個字一個字吃力地打著。

　　21. What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?

　　舉例來說，一個46歲的男子，在與家人外出度假之前進行常規體檢。雖然他自我感覺良好，但醫生發現他患了某種形式的癌癥，不超過6個月就會死去。這時，醫生該怎么對他講呢?

　　22. Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe.

　　在午夜和黎明之間，每當我不能入睡，一切舊的創傷開始疼痛的時候，我常常想象未來世界的惡夢般的情景，在所有登記編號入冊的億萬人民生活的這個擁護不堪的世界上，沒有一處有一線天才的光芒、獨創性的頭腦和豐富多彩的個性。

　　23. It needs men who can be prompted without an aim except the aim to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.

　　社會需要這樣的人：他們只為一種目標所激勵，即積極行動、恪盡職守、奮發向上。

　　24. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure.

　　我們生活在一個狹窄的世界里，我們必須對現實主義保持警覺并有所認識，現實主義要求有一個標準，不是達到這個標準，就是以失敗告終。

　　25. We can expose our children to the best values we have found.

　　我們能夠讓孩子接受我們所發現的最佳價值觀。

　　26. In short, you will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

　　簡言之，你如何去行動就看你如何想象自己。

　　27. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.

　　對我們來說，一個成功者即代表個人又是社會的一份子，他的真實表現是可信、可靠、機敏、真誠。

　　28. Those most loved invariably those who have the capacity for believing in others.

　　那些信任別人的人總是最受人愛戴的。