教师必须具有健康的体魄，农人的身手，科学的头脑，艺术的兴味，改革社会的精神。

我不是说唱歌手，我是一个活着的传奇。

文学让我们能够活出千种人生，体验千种情感。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

We don't inherit the ocean from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

极少有人能在首次推介中完成销售。仅仅因为你对一些事物有信念，并不意味着其他人也愿意接受。你需要能够一次又一次坚定地推销你的愿景。大多数人不喜欢改变，所以你需要说服他们为什么要接受改变。不要因为畏惧而不去争取自己想得到的东西。

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself.

La literatura nos permite vivir mil vidas en una sola.