I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

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.

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.