The best books are those that open your eyes.

The most important political challenge of our time is to create strong, effective, and accountable states.

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.

我们对自己说的最大谎言是 "这不需要写下来，我能记住的"。（换言之：好脑子不如烂笔头。）

我从不考虑失败，总是想着胜利。

语言是最强大的武器；它们可以建立帝国，也可以摧毁帝国。

Architecture is about creating connections - between people, between spaces, between past and future.