Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

建筑是人类事件的固定舞台。

尽人事，听天命，心态平和最重要。  

在数学中，最简单的问题往往能引出最深刻的见解。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

我们对自己讲述的关于自己的故事是最有力量的故事。

元素周期表没有改变，但我们使用其元素的方式必须改变。

The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.

The realization that electronic properties can be topologically protected has revolutionized our understanding of solid-state physics.