To be prepared is half the victory.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.