A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

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

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Well begun is half done.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.