Nature never deceives us； it is always we who deceive ourselves.

I'm not a creature of your government's creation. I'm not a creature of any government's creation. I answer to a higher power, and that higher power is music.

充塞天地的气是我的身体，统帅天地的理是我的本性。

The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Writing is a way of resisting forgetting.