Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

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.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

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

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

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.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.