"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."

"The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel."

"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."

"When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries."

"Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!"