We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."

儿童有自我保卫和平和追求完美的内在冲动。

社会主义不会也不能通过法令来创造；任何政府，无论多么社会主义，也无法建立它。

The artist must be a prophet of the possible.