A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Work alone is noble.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.