真正的美国发现还在我们面前。我们精神、我们人民、我们强大而不朽的土地的真正实现，尚未到来。

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. The artist loses his freedom the moment he creates a work of art.

The world is a place of shadows, and we are the ghosts that walk through them.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。

The purpose of life is the pursuit of truth and virtue.

我的目标是创造一个既不是东方也不是西方的世界。