To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.

A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.