I believe that one can write a great opera with real characters， real emotions， and real situations.

I'm not trying to be perfect, I'm just trying to be myself.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

一个人就是一个人，无论多么渺小。

最高的奖赏来自于那些人们还不知道叫什么的东西。如果可以的话，去做那些人们还不知道怎么描述的工作。