The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

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.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

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

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

There is no substitute for victory.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.