Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

We all have a dual nature, some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess

A nation’s people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world’s nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!

Mercia wasn’t a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.