The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.