All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.