"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."

"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work."

"It is a quiet truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."