Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.