I am but an architectural composer.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

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

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.