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.

I've always been a person who follows my heart.

遇宠辱而不惊则肝自宁，或动或静只要慎重则心自静，饮食有所节制则脾自安，调节呼吸少言语则肺自保全，淡泊少欲则肾气自足。

"I always try to find the extraordinary in the ordinary."

我不会让世界改变我的精神。