I'm not lucky, I'm blessed.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.