I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?

The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that it [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.