A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

To Love another unconditionally, is to make the ultimate sacrifice...

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.