Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.