A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
