The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

"You have to put in the hours because there’s always something which you can improve."

It's not what happens to us， but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.