Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

子贡问怎样实现仁，孔子说：“工人要做好工，必先磨好工具。生活在那里，就要追随那里的品德高尚的领导，结交那里的仁义之士。”

"I write to destroy myself, but I always end up creating myself."

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

最大的智慧是认识自己。

A company's culture is defined by the actions of its leaders, not their words.

客户与建筑师之间的对话是最亲密的对话之一。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

拖延乃光阴之窃贼。