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

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

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.'

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

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

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

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

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.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.