We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I do not seek. I find.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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.

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.