The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The uniform， constant， and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition， the principle from which public and national as well as private opulence is originally derived.

I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

我不想成为英雄，我想成为反派。

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

Writing is a way of resisting forgetting.

The architect must be a poet of space.

时间是我们唯一真正的敌人，也是我们永远无法击败的敌人。