I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

I would love to have the ability to see inside everyone's heart before I heard them speak or even saw their faces.