"To understand a country, you must understand its silences."
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
不刚劲正直,就不能纠正奸邪。
The highest art is to conceal art.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.