There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The truth is more important than the facts.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say. Meaning, reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

'Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear,' is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human na…