The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

倘若一个人对一朵花情有独钟，而那花在浩瀚的星河中，是独一无二的，那么，他只要仰望繁星点点，就心满意足了。

知识越少越准确，知识越多，疑惑也就越多。

成功不仅仅是你一生中完成了什么，还在于你激励他人去做什么。

钢琴是我的安全地带，在那里我可以完全做自己。