"We shape our buildings and they shape us."

"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own."

"Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both"

"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance."

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."

"What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."

"Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure."

"People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness."

"Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice."