This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity or loftiness with leadership.

May I say finally that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope illusion more than bread.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.