Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.