Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh

Nothing would ever break you without first seeking shelter in your mind. This is why you must not bargain with thoughts and beliefs that speak nothing less than success and happiness.

I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"