Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

To me faith means not worrying.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.