Saint Francis de Sales

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.