A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

I'm always going to love my father.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

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

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Example is leadership.

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

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The time is always right to do what is right.