We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

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.

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

When you live as a fountain of abundant love, instead of an empty well waiting to be filled by a lover, you will attract your SoulMate.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.