德瑞克被狱友施暴后趴在病床上痛哭流涕，西尼博士问他：“你曾努力让你的人生变得更好吗？”Ask the right questions. 提出正确的问题，才能找到正确的答案。

不久前路过北京看一位老朋友，她问我你一年之中是快乐的日子多还是忧郁的日子多，我不假思索地回答她当然是忧郁的日子多，快乐的日子简直是屈指可数的。她有点惊讶，“你本来可以再开心一点的”，我离开她的时候她这样说。电影中德瑞克一直生活在愤怒之中，我生活在愤怒和忧郁之中。我们都没有找到对问题寻求答案，所以我们一直处在一个生活的怪圈中。

回到了熟悉的环境中，坐到我那张舒服的椅子上，过去的思绪一点一点地追上了我，突然感到一阵恐慌，喉咙一阵阵发紧，眼前一片模糊，我闻到了一股绝望的味道，那种曾经让我长期陷入低迷不能自拔的绝望。不，我再也不要过那样的生活。我要做个行动主义者。如果非得作一个弱者，我就作一个弱者，但是我要做的理直气壮。

Bob Sweeney:Therewas a moment,when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain andsuffering and vile things that happened to me,that I saw happen to people.Usedto blame everybody.Blamed white people,blamed society,blamed God.I didn’t getno answers’ cause I was asking the wrong questions.You have to ask the rightquestions.

Derek Vinyard:Likewhat?

Bob Sweeney:Hasanything you’ve done made your life better?

Danny Vinyard:SoI guess this is where I tell you what I learned-my conclusion,right?Well,myconclusion is:Hate is baggage.Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time.It’s just not worth it.Derek says it’s always good to end a paper with aquote.He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can’t topit,steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you’dlike.”We are not enemies,but friends.We must not be enemies.Though passion mayhave strained,it must not break our bonds of affection.The mystic chords ofmemory will swell when again touched,as surely they will be,by the betterangels of our nature.”

“我们不是敌人，是朋友，不要当敌人，尽管会一时冲动，但切勿伤害我们的友爱，再相逢时，美好回忆会再度浮现，一定会，只要从一个好的角度看待人类的本质。”

“只有在你的生命是美丽的时候，世界才是美丽的”