It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Details create the big picture.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

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

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.