人最宝贵的是生命。他给予我们只有一次。人的一生应当这样度过：当他回首往事时，不应虚度年华而悔恨，也不因碌碌无为而羞耻。这样在他临死的时候就能够说：我已把我整个的生命和全部精力都献给最壮丽的事业——为人类的解放而斗争。——《钢铁是怎样炼成的》

Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all world——the fight for the Liberation of Mankind. ——How Was the Steel Tempered