The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

There's never an end for the sea.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

I think that people are usually more comfortable working with and entrusting money to those who seem most like them.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa It's a killer bee color scheme

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.