Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

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

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

To be prepared is half the victory.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.