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

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Architecture is invention.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The time is always right to do what is right.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

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

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.