The most radical art often comes from the margins.

The poetry of architecture lies in its ability to frame life.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

不要轻易放弃，坚持到底就是胜利。

"Books are the mirrors that reflect our souls."

To understand a forest, you must listen to it—not just with your ears, but with your heart.

无铬是不够的；我们需要无愧于心。