Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Example is leadership.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

There is no substitute for victory.

To be prepared is half the victory.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.