The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.