We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Source Unknown

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

William Blake

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Bible

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Source Unknown

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernst Mayr

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ina Garten

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Andrew Jensen

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes and is drawn to the face of God.

Margaret Brownley, Grieving God'

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jean de la Bruyere

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

Douglas Wood

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater