I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."