过去不是异国，而是我们祖先的家园。
The past is not a foreign land but our ancestral home.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that momentarily makes us believe we're someone else.
最大的痛苦莫过于心中有个未讲的故事。
The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.
The best buildings are those that grow with time, that age gracefully.
The soul of a place is captured not in its monuments, but in its stories.