You are responsible for the world that you live in.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

The biggest regret a few years down the line would be…I wish I could. So dare to do what you dream of…NOW.

Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

Act the way that you want to feel.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.