“Each one of us could make the difference.”

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Tension is the great integrity.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.

Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.