“Man knows so much and does so little.”

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Tension is the great integrity.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.

Murphys law of economic policy’: Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed.

But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.