Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Well begun is half done.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The best way out is always through.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.