译文：亲近贤臣，疏远小人，这是西汉兴盛的原因;亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是东汉衰败的原因。

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

We are all just walking each other home.

最高尚的快乐是理解的喜悦。