The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free.

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

When you know who you are, you know what to do.

You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

You can’t believe in your dreams if you don’t believe in the giver of the dreams. In all things, put God first. He is willing to put you ahead for excellence!

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

You can complete a project by dropping it.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.