The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

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.

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

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.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

And here's what I said, if its in the word we accept it but if you dream it and your vision is not in the bible then you got to dismiss it because its not based upon the word.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present