If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
You must change nothing in your writing without absolute necessity. If it is necessary, then change with simplicity.
A city’s greatness is measured by its public spaces.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.