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?

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

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

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

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.

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.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Prepare far enough in advance, and just about anything is possible.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

I've earned this microphone. No one gave this to me. I've earned this microphone. I use it each day to enter the arena of ideas, and do whatever I can to persuade you to agree with me.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.