Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.

Good environmentalism is good economics

Toledo is a place of innovation

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

There is only one religion in the world-hard work