It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

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

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Architecture is invention.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

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.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.