You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

罪行带来耻辱，而非断头台。

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The motion of the universe is eternal.

The true beauty of architecture lies in its ability to touch the soul.