The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

I dont want to write, Id rather draw.

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.