The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

I can, therefore I am.

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.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Form follows function.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.