The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Food should be fun.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

I am but an architectural composer.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

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

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.