The secretary's eyes opened wide, and then she smiled. I smiled back and headed for class."

So ended my story.

“那個秘書聽得目瞪口呆地，然后她笑了。我也沖她笑了一下，便上課去了。”這就是我的故事。

I scanned the sixty faces in my economics class at UNLV. Despite the early hour, no one

seemed to be asleep. Somehow, my story had touched them. Or maybe it wasn't the story at

all. In fact, it had all started with a student's observation that I was cheerful.

我掃視了一下全班六十張臉。雖然是在大清早，但沒有一個學生在打盹兒。不知道為什么，他們好像被我

的故事觸動了。也許觸動他們的并不是故事本身。其實，從一開始有學生發現我興致高昂的時候，他們便

已經被我的快樂感染了。

Deepak Chopra has quoted an Indian wise man as saying, "Who you are speaks louder to me than

anything you can say." I suppose it must be so.

著名的印度作家喬布拉，曾經引述過一位印度智者的名言：“你為人行事的本身，比你的語言更具說服力

。”我認為這的確是真理。