A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

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.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.