To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Every heart blooms with a touch of love.

Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.

Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.