To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Always be looking for what you can appreciate in the moment.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.