He said my dream doesn't mean I am crazy, only that I should probably love myself a little better, like most people.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

Tadao Ando

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.

Andrew Carnegie

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Lehrer

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

George Orwell

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Warren Farrell

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

We are governed by our thoughts in life. Think happy and positive thoughts and you will live a happy

Timothy Pina

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

Archie Panjabi

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Mark Twain