You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...