Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it.

Live in the precious present.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

The art of art... is simplicity.