If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

The best architecture is almost invisible.

The dog is a friend of man because it judges him not by his station.

我们最终都是故事，只是要让它成为一个好故事。

The most important thing in life is family. There are days you love them, and others you don't, but in the end, they're the people you always come home to.