When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.
Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful...
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts
The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.