History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Walter Gropius

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Jean Rostand

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

John Ruskin

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.

Helen Quist Milligan

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Nelson Mandela

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Miguel de Cervantes

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

Susie Orbach

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Oswald Chambers

If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.

Cassandra Clare