I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

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

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

There is no substitute for victory.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.