Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

I am but an architectural composer.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

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.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.