Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

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

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

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.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.