There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

It's the cynics who never get married.

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.