The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

旅行就是写作，写作就是旅行。

Music has taught me perseverance and gratitude.

音乐是会思考的声音。

When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task， ask them “what would be fair” and their answer usually is.

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

所以,掌权者的主要任务,就在于聚集天下的贤良之士罢了。

"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."

希望是心灵的灯塔。