Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

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.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.