Respect should be earned by ...

Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.
Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.
 Frank Lloyd Wright

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
 Frank Lloyd Wright
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
 Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
 Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
 Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
 Frank Lloyd Wright