The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

I'm always going to love my father.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

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

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!

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

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

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.