You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Always be friendly, always be kind, Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.