Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.