Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Fire. I see it everywhere.

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.