Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.
It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.