New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.