But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

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.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….