People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend, So we can swim forever.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.