"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die."

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.

没有什么比独立和自由更宝贵。

The artist is a child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

贫贱时，对富贵漠然置之，他日得志一定不自矜；富贵之时，心中不忘贫贱之日，即便失却富贵心中也必无怪怨。