There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in.
We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to do us harm.
