I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.