At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.