We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

真正的艺术家并不骄傲；他知道艺术比他更伟大。

I always try to be better than I was yesterday.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

"The act of writing is an act of discovery."

The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.