There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Ask for nothing less than inspiration.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.