Ideas are powerful things requiring not a studious contemplation but an action even if it is only an inner action.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.