Every life coheres around certain fundamental core ideas whether we realize it or not. If I were asked to state the ideas around which my life and my life‘s work have been built it would seem that they were very simple ideas.

An old professor of mine used to say that “effort counts.” “The surest thing in the world,” he would say, “next to death is that effort counts.” This I believe with all my heart.

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無論我們能否認識到這點，每個人的人生都與某種基礎的核心思想密切相連的。

倘若有人問我，我的生命與工作基于何種觀念?我覺得它們非常簡單。“一分耕耘，一分收獲。”這是我的一位老教授過去常說的話。他說：“除了死亡之外，世界上最確切的事就是‘一分耕耘，一分收獲’。”我對此深信不疑。