和那些叫喊饥饿的人相比，那么吃饱了自然就快乐；和呼叫寒冷的人相比，那么得到温暖自然就快乐；和患病者相比，那么健康就会快乐；和祸患者相比，那么平安就快乐；和死去的人相比，活着就会快乐。

建筑师必须是一位哲学家。

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose.

"We live in a world where walls have ears and the ground has eyes."

The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.

唯一真正的监狱是恐惧，唯一真正的自由是从恐惧中解脱。