True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

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.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

It's good to play and you must keep in practice.

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

For any single thing you can do, there is one person who is best in the world. Usually it is Mike Caro.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.