A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.