The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.