"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people"

"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"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"