For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

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.

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

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.

If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

We put our lives on hold for people who so easily forget about us.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.