Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

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.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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.

In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.