The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

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.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.