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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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

I admire my father greatly.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.