If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

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.

建筑实际上关乎幸福。我认为人们希望在一个空间中感觉良好...一方面是庇护，另一方面是愉悦。

成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时刻坐在桌前写作；不是等待从胸骨中迸发出天才的蓝色火焰——只是写作。

我们是我们选择的结果。

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

一个没有记忆的国家是没有未来的国家。

解读：社交媒体常呈现他人光鲜亮丽一面，实则是片面展示，别盲目艳羡，专注经营自身生活，演绎独属于自己的精彩，莫被他人虚幻表象干扰。