I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

If your password encrypts your history then its a PASTWORD

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.

I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams, then I leave and search for you until I die. When I come back, I live to remember. I live to find you.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.