If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

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

I have a Father's Day every day.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

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

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.