The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

It is easy to respond with anger it is more empowering and spiritually elevating to respond with compassion.

Life is a practice. When you 'fail, ' you can immediately begin practicing again.

The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.