Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

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

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.