The space between buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

孔子说：“三军可以剥夺主帅，匹夫不可剥夺志向。”

The best decisions are made when you listen to the people closest to the problem.

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.

"A child who reads will never be bored."