Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

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.

Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

She is Islam, and I am in Love.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die? Kakashi: Not Now. Gaara:............. Gaara: How 'bout now?

When I call on Jesus, all things are possible.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.