"We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess."

“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press

“I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.”

“You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

“I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.”

“I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.”

“Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.”

“Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.”

“If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.”