Success is dependent on effort.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

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.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Common sense is not so common.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

I am but an architectural composer.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.