If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

The best way out is always through.

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

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Honor lies in honest toil.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

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.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Details create the big picture.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

If youth knew; if age could.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.