He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."

自然界中每年的痛苦总量超出了所有体面的思考范围。

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

想指挥乐队的人必须背对人群。

I wanted to discover myself, the reason I was born, and the meaning of life.