Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Life's objective is life itself.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Architecture is crystallized music.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.