"Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored."

“The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.”

“Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;  by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.”

“What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

“One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.”

“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.”

Source : Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

“All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.”

“Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

“I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity.” He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. “I can drain faster than you can run.”