Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

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.

Joblessness releases you from the world system

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.