Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

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.

It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.

It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.