I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal.

The sea is a mirror of the human soul—endless and unfathomable.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

所有的压迫都会制造一种战争状态。

建筑师必须是一位科学家。

成功的衡量标准不仅仅是收入，而是影响力。

商业的成功来自于平衡短期收益与长期愿景。