Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Details create the big picture.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

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

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

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

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

To be prepared is half the victory.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.