Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

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

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

There is no substitute for victory.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

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.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.