The difference between good and great is attention to detail.

做出伟大工作的唯一途径是热爱你所做的事。

"If you don't change, you become extinct."

Opera is a way of living life. It is not something apart.

真相不是你希望的样子；它就是它本来的样子，你必须屈服于它的力量，否则就活在谎言中。

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified.