If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

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.

Life is finite so celebrate your birthday with infinite joy.

Forgive transgressions committed by you or others today.Only then can you have peace tomorrow.

Falling so madly in love with you is a tragedy. Nothing in my world will ever seem so beautiful again.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Cinema is like dream.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'