My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

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.

Being best at things has nothing to do with talent

Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.