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

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.

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...

I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.