Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

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

Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.