The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

His presence fogged my mind, warmed my blood, kept the darkness at bay – maybe because he was the darkness itself.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.