奥巴马将在明年1月20日卸任。重温他八年来两届总统任期的励志语录，不难看出他为美国人创造的，是建立在希望与正能量之上的人文主义政治。
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
我们必须避免胸无大志——想开豪华轿车、穿好住好，但却不肯努力工作达成这个愿望。每一个人都应该尝试将自己的潜能发挥得淋漓尽致。
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
如果我们不肯为自己的信念付出代价，那我们该扪心自问到底有多坚信着它们。
Sometimes, when we're lying together, I look at her and I feel dizzy with the realization that here is another distinct person from me, who has memories, origins, thoughts, feelings that are different from my own. That tension between familiarity and mystery meshes something strong between us. Even if one builds a life together based on trust, attentiveness and mutual support, I think that it's important that a partner continues to surprise.
有时候，当我俩躺在一起时，我会看着她，而突然意识到我枕边躺着一个跟我完全不同的人，她拥有与我完全不同的记忆、出身、思想和情绪。这既熟悉又神秘的感觉所构成的张力为我们建构出强而有力的牵绊。即使我们用信任、互相关注与扶持建立起共同的生活，但我认为作为生活伴侣，我们仍得不断地给另一半惊喜。
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
我们有责任与义务将资源投注在我们的学校与学生身上。我们必须确保成绩好的，同时有意愿和毅力学习的，但缺钱的人仍能得到最好的教育。
If we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
如果我们生来即是平等，那我们对彼此所承诺的爱也必须是一视同仁的。
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
克服绝望的最佳办法就是逼自己站起来去做点事情。
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
不管人有多么地不完美，我们可以试图去做的，就是在别人身上看见神的尊容，并尽我们所能帮助他们找到自己的荣耀。这是我每天争取去做，天天祈祷上苍让我去做的事。