An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

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.

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

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Details create the big picture.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.