One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.