Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

The real is empty and the empty real

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.