Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?