That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
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...
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.