“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.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”

“There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolu...”

“Never give up hope, no matter how dark things may seem.”

“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, t...”