Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

"You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you're going."

Literature is analysis after the event.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

做你自己；其他人都已经有人做了。

诗人是梦想家和疯子的兄弟。

做生意最重要的是不断学习。

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

森林的真正价值远远超出了它的木材。

I always try to buy stocks that are undervalued and sell them when they become overvalued.