Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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.

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

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.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

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

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.