It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
Creativity is as important as literacy
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
I don't know if I'm going to jail for three weeks, three months, or three years, but I think what I've done to motivate Hongkongers to care about this city, to try to love this country, is still valuable.
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.