He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn't agree. A person isn't supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he's wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world and it's thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Mustang...' I rest my hand on her wrist. Despite her strength, it's frail in my hands. Frail as the other girl's was when I held her in the deepmines. I couldn't help that girl. And now I feel like I can't help this woman. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

When we build, let us think we build forever.

All the wood for the temple does not come from one tree.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

To build is to dwell.

Rome was not built in a day.