Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

We are what we believe we are.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I admire my father greatly.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.