All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

In this moment, you have everything you need, and life is just a series of moments.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.