When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.