The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

An index is a great leveller.

He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

After a shooting spree they always want to take the guns away from the people who didnt do it. I sure as hell wouldnt want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.

Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.