Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.