We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

The artist in me cries out for design.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.