Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

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

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

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

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.