We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

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.

If you have life, strength and time, it is enough to perform your sacred task.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.