Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.