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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.