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So I had a charity sale a while back to get rid of all that stuff, and a woman named Joanie Jacks didn't have much money, because she didn't have a job at the time, and the least expensive thing she could find was a pair of black shoes.
有時候，我的壁櫥都有點放不下，所以我舉行了義賣，處理那些衣物。有一個名叫喬安妮·杰克斯的女人沒有太多錢，因為當時她沒有工作，而她能從中找到最便宜的東西是一雙黑鞋。
Now, she wore a size of seven and I'm 10.5 on a good day, 1 with humidity. So， she brought a pair of my shoes and kept them in her bedroom, and she said that when she got depressed, when things weren't going well, she would take out the shoes and she would stand in my shoes. And she said she wanted to stand in the shoes until she'd be able to stand on her own, and she used the shoes as a sense of inspiration to herself. At age of 50, she went back to college and got herself a degree, and today she's standing in her own shoes.
那時，她的鞋碼是7，而我平常穿10碼半的鞋，天氣潮濕的話還會穿11碼的。結果，她買了一雙我的鞋，把它們放在自己的臥室里。她說，當她感到沮喪時，當事情不順利時，他就會拿出這雙鞋子，穿在自己的腳上。她說，她想穿上這雙鞋子，直到她能夠穿上自己的鞋子，她把這雙鞋子當作對自己的激勵。在50歲時，重返大學，獲得學位，如今，她穿著屬于自己的鞋子。
That is what makes me feel successful. Of all the wonderful things hat have happened, including getting a doctorate, an honorary doctorate from Duke, what really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else's. And I will have to say, it is a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home, or homes, a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home which just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara. And it is really fantastic to have your own jet, and anybody who says it isn't lying to you. That jet thing is really good.
這讓我感覺自己很成功。把所有發上在我身上的好事都算上，包括獲得杜克大學榮譽博士學位在內，真正讓我有成績感的事情是用我的生命服務他人。當然，我得承認，有個漂亮的家真好，有個在圣巴巴拉市大火中幸免下來的漂亮的家真好。擁有自己的噴氣式飛機真好，如果有人認為這不好，他就是在撒謊。噴氣式飛機真的是個好東西。
