Peace is not found in the sea.It is found when I dream of eternity.

Wander with intentinto a garden glorious.Walk with double briskupon edenic paths.Flee the cursing fearthat lights upon your eye.Seize the twisted dreamthat strangles earth and sky.

In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.

Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else’s world, not yours.

If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.