The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

We are more interested in the capacity of architecture to improve people's lives than in the capacity of architecture to be beautiful.

The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the community the virtue of each one is living.

I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

The most dangerous risk is refusing to take any risks at all.

I became a writer to escape the despair of the real world, and enter the world of hope I create with my imagination.