The cautious seldom err.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

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

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Wine is bottled poetry.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.