Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.