I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Never mistake motion for action.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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