Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.