Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

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?

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

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

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

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

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.