The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

I have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.