The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit， accumulation of material should not stifle the student’s independence.

我们每天可支配的时间是有弹性的；我们感受到的激情会扩展它，我们激发的激情会收缩它；而习惯会填补剩下的部分。