Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Architecture is not about solving problems but about creating atmospheres.

Light is the most important element in architecture. Without light, there is no space.

团结不是千篇一律，而是在多样性中找到共同的目标。

The wound of displacement never fully heals; it only learns to speak in different tongues.

文明就像野蛮深海上的一层薄冰。

这个世界惟有两样东西让我们的心灵感到深深的震撼，一是我们头顶上灿烂的星空,一是我们内心崇高的道德法则。

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.