The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

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