It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

The best way out is always through.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

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