Architecture is invention.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

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.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.