The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

In the depth of solitude, I found the presence of all.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of the centuries.

In the midst of difficult times， it is our response that defines us， not the circumstances.

我不是一个容易被归类的人，我认为这是一件好事。

The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.

"Memory is a fragile thing, but it is also our most powerful tool for understanding the past."