Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.