The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich.

Every hour, she thinks, someone forges the rings, someone carves the cradle, someone loses the war.

我不喜欢被束缚，因为音乐需要自由。

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

山上有玉那么那山上的草木都很润泽，水里有宝珠连河岸也不那么干枯。只要自身修养足够好，光芒总是遮掩不住的。有时候觉得自己做得很好了，可还是没人理解，因觉得“埋没”了自己而委屈不平。其实是自己做得还不到位，还需再接再厉，善行积累多了，自然就会得到认可。