To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Sacred existence fuels the heart of gratitude.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.