Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.