光是让建筑鲜活的东西。

晏子春秋

Reason is the soul of the law； the reason of the law is the soul.

Internationalization is not simply going global, but achieving an organic combination of localized operations and a global perspective.

"Psychology should measure the mind by its outcomes."

The beauty of poetry lies in its ambiguity.

自由不是做我们想做的事情的权力，而是做我们应该做的事情的权利。

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"