"Luxury is about emotion. If you don’t create emotion, you don’t create desire."

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·地广》。贱，指地位低。贫，指没有钱财。地位卑贱并不妨碍一个人的智慧，家境贫寒并不妨碍一个人的品行。这句话言评价一个人的才智、德行不能根据其社会地位、经济状况来作判断。出身低贱的人，不一定没有智慧；家境贫寒的人，不一定没有品行。

1925年，孙中山在病榻前对张学良说，指出苏联是红色帝国主义。

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

采矿业的未来属于那些能够平衡利润与目标的人。

I don’t compete with others. I compete with myself.

音乐是唯一能够表达无法言喻之物的艺术形式。

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, well, it's a bad book. But if an architect makes a bad building, it's a bad life.