Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

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.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.