One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

It's a political piece. It is full of ideas and that's the reason I was drawn to it. The central issue is fear and to what extent people living in fear should or should not take responsibility for their own lives, and it is also about governments not being responsible to their own people.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.