90. 我们无法选择很多事，但我们的选择就是我们的抱负AMBITION

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
我们无法选择出生，我们无法选择我们的父母，我们无法选择所处的历史时代，出生的国度，以及被抚养的环境。我们绝大多数人无法选择死亡的时间与环境。但是在这无法选择的人生中，我们却可以选择我们将如何地生活: 勇敢地还是怯懦地，高尚地还是卑鄙地，有目的地还是随波逐流地。我决定什么是重要的以及什么是不重要的，我们决定让我们变得伟大的是我们所做的和我们拒绝去做的。不管天地对我们的选择和决定是如何地冷漠。我们决定。我们选择。随着我们的抉择，我们的人生也因此形成。最后，塑造我们的人生就是所谓的抱负。