I don’t like to be told what to do. I like to make my own decisions.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

The beauty of mathematics is that it is one of the few areas of human endeavor where absolute truth can be known.

"Every sentence is a leap of faith."

The city is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.

设定新目标或梦想新梦想永远不会太晚。

The pursuit of happiness is not about chasing after pleasure but about cultivating meaning.