生活近看是悲剧，远看是喜剧。

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

最大的智慧是认识到自己的无知。

建筑应该是光的过滤器，而不仅仅是空间的容器。

Stupid is as stupid does.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.

The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.

Pain can be a form of knowledge.

The beauty of life lies in the details.