The only thing I can do is paint.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

你可以成为任何你想成为的人。

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Human suffering and joy are universal, no matter where we come from.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."