My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

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

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.