Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

There is no substitute for victory.

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.