Loneliness is not the absence of others, but the absence of oneself.

网球是一项残酷的运动。没有平局。如果你输了，你就出局了。你必须准备好接受这一点。

The night is a great poem, but the stars are its words.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.