The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I'm always going to love my father.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

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

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.