I believe it's important to have a passion for what you do. If you don't have a passion, you won't have the energy to keep going when things get tough.

——《在东京留日三团体欢迎会的演说》（1913年3月1日）

我从不把自己当作明星，我只是一个热爱唱歌的人。

Light is the most important material in architecture.

我们都困在语言的网中，但它也是我们唯一的逃脱手段。

The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

虚无是道的本体，因缘是道的作用。