Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree.

Be who your are, do not be what people want you to be

You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.