The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.

Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

我们今天从海洋中捕捞的每一条鱼都是从我们孩子未来借来的贷款。

你越努力，就越幸运。

I'd rather make mistakes than do nothing.

The soil is not just dirt—it's the foundation of civilization.