Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

W. S. Gilbert

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

Excessive dress prevents the body from moving freely. Excessive wealth interferes with the movements of our soul.

Leo Tolstoy

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

George Villiers

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

James Taylor

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Barbara Jordan

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Gordon Strachan

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

Effective action is always unjust.

Jean Anouilh

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

George Bernard Shaw

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

George Eliot

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt