Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")

Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor.

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.