It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.