The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

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

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.