I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

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

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

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

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.