Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

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

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.