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

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

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.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

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

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.