Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

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.

With God on your side, what does luck matter?

Heart cannot think what outrage and what cries, with black smoke and flashing fire, the beast threw forth, turning the whole world to darkness.

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.