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

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.