The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

The sacred soul is full of God's spirit.

Hope keeps you alive.

It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.