The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
独处的能力就是爱的能力。这对你来说可能看起来矛盾，但其实不是。这是一个存在的真理：只有那些能够独处的人才能爱，才能分享，才能深入另一个人的内心深处——而不占有对方，不依赖对方，不将对方物化，不对对方上瘾。
译文：有道义的财物可以去谋取，没有道义的钱不能强求。赏析：君子爱财，取之有道。赚钱不可耻，但要走正道。那些来路不正的意外之财莫贪，人要是贪小便宜，终究会吃大亏的。
Technological innovation in mining isn't about replacing people, but about making their jobs safer and more productive.
"Every book is a journey, and every journey changes you."
——《在山西实业界学界及各党派欢迎会的演说》（1912年9月20日）
The best architecture is functional.
La poesía es la única prueba concreta de la existencia del hombre.