The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Your struggles don't define you; how you overcome them does.

The most important thing is to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

积聚的水如果不深，就无力浮起大船。倒一杯水在堂前的凹地，芥草浮在上面就是小船了，放一只水杯在上面就动不了了，是因为水浅而船大。聚集的风如果不大，就无力载负巨大的双翼，因而大鹏扶摇而上九万里，疾风在下面劲吹，然后才能凭借风力，背负蓝天而无可阻挡，才能够一路南飞。

"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."

人们不会问一个受苦的人：你的国家是什么？你的宗教是什么？人们只会说：你在受苦，这对我来说就足够了。

The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

我的品味最简单。我总是对最好的感到满意。