Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

The White House is a bully pulpit.