Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

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.

I like the imp / in impossibility

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.