"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"It is a essential truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance."