Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Praying is a paved path.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.