An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science. . . In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?
Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!