In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.