I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

The mystery of creativity is like the mystery of freedom.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

译文：结交朋友如果是为了脸面有光，那不如结交对自己有身心有益的朋友；教导子弟求取富贵荣华，不如告诉子弟们养成良好的品行。赏析：《大学》一书中说：自天子以至于庶人，壹是皆以修身为本。意思是说，不管是天子还是百姓，都应该把修身作为自己的立身之本。做事就是做人，人做好了，事情自然就会成。

I'm not a pop star. I'm a performance artist.