Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

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.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.