Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.
I hate war. . . for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.
So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world. . . to make the world a better place to be. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.