Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Example is leadership.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.