Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation

Growth requires courage, risk and the willingness to go beyond fear.

The view from the mountaintop is reserved for the uncommon man.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

There are tons of people Id like to freeze for all of eternity, but we wont go into that!

I don't want to be Sheryl Sandberg and 'Lean In', I don't want to lean in like a guy. I want to be more. I want to be a woman and proudly a woman.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?