别让任何人定义你的价值。

【译文】 宰予白天睡觉。孔子说：“他象朽木一样无法雕琢，象粪墙一样无法粉刷，我能拿他怎样？”孔子又说：“以前我看人，他说什么，我信什么；现在我看人，听他说，再看他做。因为宰予，我改了过来。”

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire.

艺术不是对现实的逃避，而是对现实的更深层次的参与。

我认为所有的写作都是对抗陈词滥调的运动。不仅仅是笔下的陈词滥调，还有思想和心灵中的陈词滥调。

世界上最美丽的东西是真理。

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws to any other hands.