“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”

“Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.”

“As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.”

“I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.”

“This [sand-dollar hunting] had become one of our rituals together, and though she would search for other varieties of shells when I was out of town or unable to see her, she would wait until I appe...”

“Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars abov...”

“Parenting is tough.”

“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”

“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”

“A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end,but tossed into the sea,it is swallowed by enormity.”