Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don't matter and people that think you don't matter.