我的目标是创作出经得起时间考验的音乐。

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

"History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us."

互联网正在成为明日地球村的广场。

现在就去做吧。未来对谁都没有承诺。

To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

我作品的短暂性是对生命本身的反映。

The architect must be humble before the forces of nature.

The most important thing is to be honest with yourself and with your audience.