Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.