The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

Luis Barragan

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Anna Ford

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

David Leigh Eddings

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Kate Millet

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lady Constance Lytton

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

Jean Paul Sartre

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Virginia Woolf