I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.