Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

建筑是使不可见之物可见的艺术。

I believe that architecture is a discipline that can change society.

宰相必须从地方官员中选拔，猛将必须从士兵中产生

生命的问题的解决在于问题的消失。