Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

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.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

tears, love, life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

He dropped his head and kissed her. He kisses her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.