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

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

Michael Perry

Terlambat lebih baik daripada tidak sama sekali.

Irin Sintriana

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Jeffrey Donovan

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Brian Eno

What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.

John Green

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

Stephen Covey

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

George Orwell