Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

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.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?