“Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Tension is the great integrity.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Black culture is something I don’t relate to much at all.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.

People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.