A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.This is war between good people for their respective survival.Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.

In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.