A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Work alone is noble.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.