Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

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

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The best way out is always through.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.