老年最好的盔甲就是追求完美、没有虚度的一生。
The best armor of old age is a well-spent life perfecting it.
我并非天生失明，12岁时才失去视力。所以我见过这个世界，知道事物的模样。当我歌唱爱与痛苦、欢乐与悲伤时，我知道自己在唱什么。
当立法和行政权力集中在同一人或同一机构时，就不会有自由。
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.