“But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.”

“So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.”

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.”

“I call architecture 'petrified music'.”

“Architecture is frozen music.”

“Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”