We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

The architect's role is to act as a bridge between what is and what could be.

我们遭受痛苦，因此我们思考。

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

A people without poetry is like a night without stars.