And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

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.

The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

There's nothing that I buy that I don't wear.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.