Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.