Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

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.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

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.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

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.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

The time is always right to do what is right.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.