Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The time is always right to do what is right.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'