"Know your gifts and share them."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."

"If you see a get rich quick scheme, that's someone else trying to get rich off of you."

"Happiness is an inside job."

"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."

"The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom."

"Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."

"I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city."

"People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read."

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."

"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."

"One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself."

"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."

"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'"

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."

"Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."