We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

We perish because we fail to pray to God.

Self-confidence. Let's fight the demon that makes you look smaller than you truly are.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

I want to make a difference.

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.