What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

和平不是战争的缺席，而是建立在性格坚强的美德之上。

Music is my life, and I live it every day.

The church has no power to enforce obedience, neither have any laws they made for that purpose, any binding force on anyone, but by his own consent.

我的艺术是一个永无止境的故事。