Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.