Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Less is more.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Work is much more fun than fun.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Well begun is half done.