Every stroke of the brush carries the weight of personal and collective memory.
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 able to love, to share, to go 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.
Opera is a way of living life. It is not something apart.
The power of a man, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.
我不害怕失败,我害怕不去尝试。
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
"We are all victims of our own expectations."