When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

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 want to live a creative life.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

Decide to believe in God, who created you. Decide to believe in yourself, that you truly can reach goals—your goals