Marriage is this grand madness and I think if people knew that they would perhaps take it more seriously.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage my kids and my grandchildren. If you don't have that you really don't have very much.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

I remember a specific moment watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line and her saying to me 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music.

Man after all my grandma put into me learning the piano that was a hard day telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America our children and our grandchildren and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

The function of the politician therefore is one of continuous watchfulness and activity and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

May I say finally that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.