"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning."

"It is a unyielding truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."

"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."

"As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design."