Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win, " and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different.

No one blames her.""That never matters, " said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

The order of things consents to virtue.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.