You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.

Opportunity will always meet you exactly where you stand.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.