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.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

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

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

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Less is more.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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.