“Tension is the great integrity.”

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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.

The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked.

In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture’s essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Every day, there’s that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there’s still that mountain to climb. So it’s not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

It’s like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won’t hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can’t take hold.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school – Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.