The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.