It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

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 you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.