Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Jodi Picoult

I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share.

Rita Mae Brown

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James H. Breasted

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Tadao Ando

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Ralph W. Sockman

But one of the things that has to be faced is

Ella Baker

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Mangnu Hirschfield

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Artemus Ward

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Mason Cooley

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

The Talmud