The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been in despair.
Ninety-five per cent of your success or failure will come from your daily habits.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
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.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.