I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
我们不是从祖先那里继承了海洋;我们是从子孙那里借来的。
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
阳光不会永远照耀,但只要它还在,我们不妨一起闪耀。