Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

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

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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

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

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

To me faith means not worrying.

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

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.