“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”
“Women are the real architects of society.”
“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”
“No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15”
“A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.”
“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”