The best buildings are those that tell a story.

It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it — who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet — that they can occasionally find one.

Success is about making the right choices, not just working hard.

"Grief is not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. It is a circle, and you come back, again and again, to the same place."

In the actual world， a very great deal of the evil that is done does not spring from evil motives.