谷物不仅仅是一种商品，它是文明的基础。

读古人的著作，与贤能的人交往，最忌讳轻率地表示附和赞同，也不能够轻率地表示异议。之所以会犯这两种过失，都是由于心中缺乏主见，做学问时就掺杂有趋炎附势的成分，不是曲意逢迎便是虚伪矫饰。

The more extreme the art, the more it reveals about us.

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.

Think differently, but execute precisely.

Take one simple thing — almost anything — but take it extremely seriously， as if it was the only thing in the world， or maybe the entire world is in it — and by taking it seriously you’ll light up the sky.