What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

The best decisions are made at the intersection of data and experience.

每个人都讨论我的艺术并假装理解，好像理解是必要的，而其实只需要去爱。

"The pursuit of happiness is a futile endeavor; true contentment lies in acceptance."

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.