Social progress requires the organic combination of individual freedom and social responsibility.

建筑不是为了富人或名人建造什么，而是为了提高每个人的生活质量。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

The truth is not in the words, but in the silence between them.