"As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo."

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I bought the sweetness with this pain.”

“Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”

“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”

“The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."”

“Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.”

“Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.”

Source : David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House