The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

生命的伟大用处在于将其用于一些能够超越它的事物。

I don’t like to be told who I am.

Silence can sometimes be more powerful than words.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Architecture is not about form, it's about many other things.