The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

Don’t let your fears control you.

The pursuit of knowledge is a journey without end, and that's what makes it exciting.

最好的建筑是那些既能打动理智又能打动心灵的建筑。