Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.