You can't get mad at anybody else for your own mistakes.

To write a life is to walk a tightrope between fact and interpretation.

选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·力耕》。道：放大。治理百姓的方法，在于节约用度，注重农桑。

建筑不仅仅是关于建筑物；它是关于为人们创造场所。

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea.

出自先秦《荀子·非相》。君子自己贤能而对他人的疲弱无能也能容忍，自己机智而对他人的愚蠢也可容忍，自己知识广博而对他人的浅薄也能予以宽容，自己道德纯粹而对他人的道德不高也能宽容。说明君子要有容人的雅量，不可以自己的标准衡量一切人。

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

"The past is always with us, for it feeds the present."