Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

I call architecture frozen music.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Nothing will work unless you do.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.