To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

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.

I'm going to need to save you.""Excuse me? No one needs-""I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me