"His interest in diplomacy seems to be motivated by the sense that one can probe, learn and possibly divide and influence countries and movements precisely because they are not monoliths....he distrusts abstractions, generalizations, extrapolations, projections."
- Fareed Zakaria on Barack Obama, Newsweek, July 2008

The physician can buy his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
- R.G. Collingwood