“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”— Diane Ackerman
“I've seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows. I don't know one person who hasn't been through some turbulence in their life.”— Ben Affleck
“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but a splintered world.”— Alvar Aalto
“The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”— Chinua Achebe
“I live in a state of grace, in which I'm aware of where I am and what's happening.”— Jenny Agutter
“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”— Henri Frédéric Amiel
“For the first time in my life I'm taking whatever is offered, having a good time, just being a human being.”— Montgomery Clift
“A Man that is of Copernicus’s Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, cannot but sometimes have a fancy that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, nay and their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours.”— Christiaan Huygens
“Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either art or science, but as a genuine synthetic process.”— Alvar Aalto