I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

We can be amazed at man not only because he is a person, not only because he's made in the image of God, but also because, by the Incarnation, human nature itself has been raised to a divine dignity.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.