Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.
That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
Lasting change is a series of compromises.
A good solid bit of work lasts.
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change.
True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.
The stories we love best do live in us forever.
These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
We never realized how much of an influence we had.
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.
