Suddenly, in my mind I hear my father say, 'Mind over matter, son. You can do this. You can accomplish anything as long as you really want to.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.

Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

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There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.