Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

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.

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.