Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.