I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

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.

Mercy and favor are miracles of God that give a man something he could not even dare to dream of.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.