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

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

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

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

I love being my husband's wife.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Details create the big picture.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.