An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Life is a barter of choice and consequences.

You are a seed

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge.

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.