The true value of a tree isn't in its board feet, but in its roots and reach.

学习是系统中产生的任何变化，这种变化或多或少会永久性地改变其适应环境的能力。

"To write is to resist, to resist is to exist."

The quality of an organization's adaptability determines the quality of its survival.

The most difficult thing in painting is to be simple.

绘画是关于观看。真正的观看。

唯一真正的错误是我们从中什么也没学到的错误。

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。

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.