Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

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

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Less is more.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Form follows function.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.