“They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.”

If there’s a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it’s probably about starting with the people.

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed–that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted

It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Right now, vee was the only person i could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.