You’re your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don’t need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.
Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
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...
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.