我唯一知道的是我一无所知。

If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

人的喜怒哀乐的感情没有表现出来，叫做中；表现出来合乎法度，叫做和。达到中和，天地就各居自己的位置，万物也就生长了。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open heart.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.

The only way to do architecture is to do architecture.