I can't think straight when you 're this close.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.