I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.

I don't want to paint people who are just sitting there like models. I want to paint the actual person.

In the midst of change, leaders must be the anchors of stability.

"Be yourself, because everyone else is already taken."

注释：杜绝不良嗜好和欲望，这样才能免除负累。抑制不合理的行为，减少邪恶的行径，这样可以避免过失。远离酒色，这样才能保持自身清白。

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.