To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Everything that we design is designing us back

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Awe is the best drug in the world

He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.

Distance starts in hearts, confirms in mind & actions from tongue....

To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.