The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Wine is bottled poetry.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

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.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.