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

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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?

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.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.