I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.