Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

May you live all the days of your life.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

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.

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

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

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.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

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.

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.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.