A building should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
建筑应该诉说它的时代和地点，但渴望永恒。
一八一四年，俄、奥、普联军兵临巴黎城下，理工学校学生要求参战。面临灭顶之灾的拿破仑却说：“我不愿为取金蛋杀掉我的老母鸡！”后来，这句名言被刻在巴黎理工学校梯型大教室的天花板正中心，一直激励着该校师生奋发好学。
我们找到的幸福，我们感受到的瞬间，都是真实的。
The only thing that separates successful people from the others is hard work.
预测未来的最好方法就是自己去创造它。
Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
