The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.

烦恼本身就是菩提，生死本身就是涅槃。

Every word is a step towards understanding, every sentence a bridge to another soul.

A building should respond to its environment, not dominate it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.