We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Affluence means influence.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.