The best architecture is invisible; it is the life within that matters.

在阿拉伯世界，小说不仅是艺术，更是一种社会责任的承担。

You have to be ruthless in business, but fair at the same time.

不是要成为最好的，而是要变得比昨天更好。

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.