The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

生活的目的是活着，而活着意味着意识到，快乐地、陶醉地、平静地、神圣地意识到。

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The true discovery of America is before us. The true fulfillment of our spirit, of our people, of our mighty and immortal land, is yet to come.

I believe that architecture should be a dialogue between the past and the future.