Architecture must be rooted in the past but look towards the future.

人生苦短，必须快乐。

心灵不是被动的镜子，而是生活的积极参与者。

Be so good they can't ignore you.

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."