Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

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.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

To fail is to not try at all.

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

Life would be boring without gossip.