Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

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

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

In fair weather prepare for foul.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

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

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.