Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

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

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

We are what we believe we are.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.