The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

I admire my father greatly.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

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.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

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

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.