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.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.