"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” -- John D. Rockefeller, 1925

C. S. Lewis put it well when he gave us the analogy of remodeling the human soul and a living house: "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace." (Mere Christianity [New York: Macmillan, 1960], p. 174.)

“Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”…“The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”…“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” -- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”…“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944