I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

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 English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

I think my brain just has a natural way of going to what would be the most insane thing, the least likely option.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.