“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”

“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.”

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”

“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest th...”

“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourselfyou...”