Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

Need is not quite belief.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.