A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

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

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

I do not seek. I find.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.