What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

If youth knew; if age could.

To be prepared is half the victory.

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'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The sun is new each day.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

I love being my husband's wife.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.