布拉德·皮特主演的《返老還童》中，本傑明·巴頓充滿傳奇的一生讓人感慨萬千，他生命中路過的那些人留下的哲言，是生活中最寶貴的財富。

　　Some people, were born to sit by a river.
　　無論什麼膚色，什麼體型，人們都是孤獨的。但可怕的不是孤獨，而是懼怕孤獨。其實孤獨沒什麼不好，真的。

　　NGUNDA OTI: Plenty times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... But they scared shitless... Not a thing wrong with being alone... no sir...

　　Some get struck by lightning.
　　當我瞎了一個眼睛，幾乎聽不見晨間喧囂，動不動就抽搐，總是丟三落四，上帝卻依然扔下閃電來提醒我，能夠活著已經是樁幸運的事了。

　　MR. DAWS: I'm blind in the one eye...I can't hardly hear...I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere... I lose my line of thought... but you know what... God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive...

　　Some have an ear for music.
　　無所謂你彈奏得怎樣，重要的是你彈琴時的感受……我們命中注定要失去我們所愛之人，不然我們怎麼知道他們在我們生命中有多重要？

　　THE WOMAN: It isn't how well you play, it's how you feel about what you're playing... We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us.

　　Some are artists.
　　有時事與願違，你大可以像瘋狗一樣咆哮，怨天尤人，詛咒命運，悔不當初……但走到最後一刻，還是不得不安靜地放手歸去……

　　CAPT. MIKE: You can be mad as a mad dawg at the way things wents... You can swear, curse the fates, regret every'ting you ever dids... but when it comes to the end... You have to lets go...

　　Some swim.
　　我一直等著，等著自己的狀況變好，但我自己從未做過什麼，人生就這麼平白無辜地浪費了。