The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Porcelain is the most alchemical of materials, turning earth into something that seems to hold light.

Everything has a beginning and an end.

我不是那种在关键时刻退缩的人。

I’ve never believed in limits.

The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.