Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

God was bored by him.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.