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.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

解释：国家大而政绩小，国家的影响就跟它的政绩一样；国家小而政绩大，国家的地位也大。

The unexamined life is not worth living.