I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.