I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

May you live all the days of your life.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.