All experience is an arch, to build upon.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The more I learn, the more I yearn.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.