I'm just a woman. And as a woman， I have no way to make money， not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money， which I don’t， it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him， not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition， because it is.

The true measure of our success in grain production lies not in the yield alone, but in how we balance productivity with environmental stewardship.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

We cannot change the past, but we can change how we view it.

Architecture is not about fashion, it's about permanence.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

沉默的人拥有最掷地有声的头脑。