Waking up in good health this morning is truly enough reason for you to walk around with a big smile on your face.

Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.