I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

勇敢一点，冒险一试，没有什么能替代经验。

The piano is my safe place—it’s where I can be completely myself.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.