My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

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.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.