Architecture is an art that confronts nature, attempting to create order within chaos. - 每日文摘

当你与众不同时，有时你看不到数百万接受你本来面目的人。你只注意到那个不接受你的人。

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

麦当娜

我们不是从祖先那里继承地球，而是从子孙那里借来的。

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

马丁·索普

也许它们扮演的其实是双面角色，暖昧不清。但随着时间的沉淀，事情愈演愈烈，一切终将水落石出。

埃切加赖

身处果壳之中，也幻想自己是无限宇宙之王。

杰克·伦敦

命运就像一条河，我们只能顺流而下，无法逆流而上。

金宇澄

男人是泥，女人是水。泥多了，水浊；水多了，泥稀。不多不少，捏两个泥人——好一对神仙眷侣。

三毛

最强者也不能总是强大得足以永远作主人，除非他能把力量转化为权利和服从的义务。

卢梭

I have a vivid memory of what happened， and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff， you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates， figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." That's not what happened. Instead， my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying， my grandfather， who had been driving in silence， pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble？ My grandfather was a highly intelligent， quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me， and maybe this was to be the first time？ Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me， and after a bit of silence， he gently and calmly said， "Jeff， one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."

我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。我本期待着小聪明和算术技巧能赢得掌声，但那并没有发生。相反，我的祖母哭泣起来。我的祖父之前一直在默默开车，把车停在了路边，走下车来，打开了我的车门，等着我跟他下车。我惹麻烦了吗？我的祖父是一个智慧而安静的人。他从来没有对我说过严厉的话，难道这会是第一次？还是他会让我回到车上跟祖母道歉？我以前从未遇到过这种状况，因而也无从知晓会有什么后果发生。我们在房车旁停下来。祖父注视着我，沉默片刻，然后轻轻地、平静地说："杰夫，有一天你会明白，善良比聪明更难。"