Memory is not a recording device but a system that actively organizes and reconstructs information.

The most personal is the most creative.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

凡是大国之所以不攻打小国的,必定是由于这个小国粮食充足,城郭修筑坚固,上下和谐一心。

我总是试图将我的弱点转化为优势。

每一首诗都是一场小革命。

释义：跟交情浅的朋友说过深的话题，是愚蠢的；生活贫困的人总是希望得到富贵者的施舍，是糊涂的；没有取得他人的信任就进献忠言，会被误解为批评。  

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

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.