Originality is a return to the origin.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

But man does not create...he discovers.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Form does not necessarily follow function

Your life, your world.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.