Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

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.

Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.

Regardless of what others may tell you, you only need two Mexican-Americans for a Mexican standoff.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Don’t be scared... Be positive... Please don’t think that your life is about to end... Take the right advice and act as soon as you can... If there’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it.