Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.