The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

I'm not a human, I'm a monster.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每个建筑都是一个原型；没有两个是完全相同的。

思考就是将自己限制在一个单一的思想中，有一天它会像世界天空中的一颗星星一样静止不动。

The rule of law is a necessary condition for the development of a modern state.