If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

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.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

We need a leader, not a reader.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.