I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

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.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.