No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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 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.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

When you have a bad result, you want the next game to come as quickly as possible because a good result will make people forget about the bad result.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.