How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.