Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
这个世界惟有两样东西让我们的心灵感到深深的震撼,一是我们头顶上灿烂的星空,一是我们内心崇高的道德法则。
你爱得越多,你就能爱得越多——而且你爱得越强烈。
A country without literature is a country without a voice.