Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

So little done, so much to do.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.