If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without 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.

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.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.