If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

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.

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.