I don't think I'm a very good liar. I think I'm a very bad liar.

In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

When you fail, that's when you get up and try again. There's no reason to just stay down.

The love of democracy is that of equality.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

神秘就在公开之处。

【译文】 孔子说：“君子有三件事要警戒：年轻时，血气还不成熟，要戒女色；年壮时，血气正旺盛，要戒争斗；年老时，血气已衰落，要戒贪婪。”

Without freedom, there is no creation, and without creation, there is no true life.

"I think of painting as a kind of silent music."

I must study politics and war, tapestry and porcelain.