Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

Broadway's not what it used to be.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.