Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.