Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

She looked down at her bulging veins and she remembered the most important thing that she had forgotten – she was alive.

Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of the Mind and the Mind of Nature.

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.