I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

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.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.