生活不是关于你不能做什么，而是关于你能做什么。

刚的东西容易折断，柔的东西因为可以卷曲所以不易折断。

获得自由的唯一途径就是保持诚实。

语言是作家最后的祖国。

艺术并非模仿生活，而是生活在模仿艺术。

饱食终日，宴乐无度，不就是白白地浪费了一天！轻举妄动、胡言乱语、不讲道理、放纵私欲，岂不是就是罪恶的一日！

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.