"Every face hides a story, every story hides a face."

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.

Architecture is a language that conveys ideas through space and form.

The great cause of the prosperity of the country is liberty—liberty in the economic system.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.