The city is the most important thing. Buildings are just fragments of the city.

Innovation is not about inventing new things, but doing old things in new ways.

过去是一个陌生的国度；那里的人做事方式不同。

"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."

Psychology must be grounded in the reality of the organism's struggle to exist.

坏人活着是为了吃与喝，而好人却是为了活着才吃与喝。

【译文】请求人帮助就去求真正的男子汉，救济别人就救济那些急需救济的人。口渴的时候一滴水也如同甘露一般甜美，喝醉酒后再添杯还不如不添。