Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.