The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease.

Architecture must resist the purely functional; it must transcend mere utility.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

The reason they call it an American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.

股市是一个将钱从急躁的人转移到耐心的人的工具。