"My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too."

“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

“How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work”

“Pictures help you to form the mental mold.”

“The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.340, Vintage

“There are no uncontaminated angels”

“But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.”

Source : Claude Debussy, François Lesure, Roger Nichols (1987). “Debussy Letters: ,”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

“To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.”