Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Fifty years from now, I will not be remembered for how much money I earned, the type of home I lived in or the car I drove, but on whether I made a difference to someone's life.

I found a way to see in the dark. Close your eyes.

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.