The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious, reasoning part of the mind has only limited control over the automatic, emotional part.

生而贫穷是意外，但死于贫穷是选择。

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The human soul is a labyrinth, full of twists and turns, and we are all trying to find our way out.