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

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

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.