We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.