It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

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.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.