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

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Form follows function.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

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.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

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