Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world, " says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.