We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

Love has value even though we can’t measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can’t understand it.

We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

The passions are the voice of the body.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.