Architecture in general is frozen music.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.