You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

I admire my father greatly.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Well begun is half done.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.