More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.