Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

The cautious seldom err.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

There is no substitute for victory.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.