Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

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.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

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.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.