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

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Honor lies in honest toil.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

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.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.