I never go on court thinking I will lose.

刻苦读书，即使功名未就，但使人品高雅，气度不凡；道德高尚，但不希图报答，时时恬然自安，饱食酣眠。

Architecture must negotiate between the pragmatic and the poetic.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Collaboration is beautiful because it takes you somewhere you wouldn’t go alone.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Rien de plus cher que la chanson grise / Où l’Indécis au Précis se joint.