In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.