What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.