The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

书籍是最安静、最恒久的朋友；它们是最易接近、最睿智的顾问，也是最耐心的老师。

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

我们都是时间的移民。

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.