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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.