Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

He eased back and murmured, “You taste so damn sweet. Like maple syrup.”“And you taste like stolen bacon.

Those who don't try are destine for failure

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.