By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.

Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he'd be there.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

You see the clouds in the sky? I made that with Vapr!

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.