“The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.”

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves.”

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”

“I would build a cloudy House
For my thoughts to live in;
When for earth too fancy-loose
And too low for Heaven!
Hush! I talk my dream aloud -
I build it bright to see, -
I build it on the moonlit cloud,
To which I looked with thee.”

“One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;
The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.
He sings of a house he lived in long ago.
It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;
The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.”

“The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.”

“A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.”

“We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)”

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”