Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Form follows function.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

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

I'm always going to love my father.

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.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.