When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

I call architecture frozen music.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.

Knowing is half the battle.

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!<br> Where there is hatred let me sow love;<br> Where there is injury, pardon;<br> Where there is doubt, faith;<br> Where there is despair, hope;<br> Where there is darkness, light;<br> Where there is sadness, joy.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.