The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

存在前于本质。

【译文】 孔子说：“君子有九种事情要考虑：看要考虑是否看清楚了、听要考虑是否听清楚了、脸色要考虑是否温和、表情要考虑是否谦恭、言谈时要考虑是否忠诚、工作时要考虑是否敬业、疑问时要考虑请教、愤怒时要考虑后患、见到好处时要考虑道义。”

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

Finance is a core competitiveness of the country, and financial security is an important part of national security.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

我不是环境的产物，我是我的决定的产物。

The dead are never really gone, they live on in the stories we tell about them.

I'm not a person who likes to be second.