“Why is it only Tudor buildings we mock?”

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

“… I am not prepared to build the type of wall you built in Berlin. In South Africa we only build walls for houses.”

“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”

“Why is it that countries which we call strong" are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?”

“Why are those buildings swaying like trees? ~ Hotel Womb”

“A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.”

“However much Dhamma the Buddha taught, we gather it all to our own confusion. It’s as if we were building a hut and yet went around to gather up plans for hundred-story buildings and spread them out for a look. They just don’t go together. The plan for a building and the plan for a hut are as different as earth and sky, and yet here we are going to gather the mind into one point, which is like building a hut. Only after we have the strength can we then begin enlarging it into a building.”

“Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act… What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.”

“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”