If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

I'm a huge Kelly Clarkson fan. I think she's great.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).