There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
