The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
关于我们，最真实的是我们创造、克服、忍耐、转变、爱的能力，以及超越苦难的能力。
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
非洲的奇怪之处在于，如果你喜欢，过去、现在和未来是如何以一种粗犷的爵士乐的形式聚集在一起的。
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
阅读是一种文明行为；这是文明史上最伟大的行为之一，因为它获取了思想的免费原材料，建造了各种可能性的城堡。
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
我们在这里的时间是神奇的！这是你唯一需要认识到的空间，无论它是什么美丽，无论是真的，伟大的，任何有潜力的，任何稀有的，任何独特的，在。这是唯一的空间。
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
魔术师和政治家有很多共同点：他们都必须把我们的注意力从他们真正做的事情上移开。
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
阅读和写作一样，是一种创造性的行为。如果读者只是把自己的一小部分带到书中，那么他们只会看到书中所反映的自己的一小部分。
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
讲故事的事实暗示了人类根本的不安，暗示了人类的不完美。哪里有完美，哪里就没有故事可讲。
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
当你想象你开始创造，当你开始创造时，你意识到你可以创造一个你喜欢生活的世界，而不是一个你正在痛苦中的世界。
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
我父亲无意中给我的最伟大的礼物之一，就是见证他在逆境中所表现出的勇气。我们的生活有点像过山车，有一些非常具有挑战性的财政时期。他总是毫不动摇，完全平静，同一个热情洋溢，欢笑，快乐的人。
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
如果你看到美好的事物被摧毁，如果你看到它们消亡，不要太绝望。因为最好的东西总是在秘密中成长。
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
我不是为了成功而奋斗，只是为了让自己变得更加美丽，与更多的人分享。