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

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Food should be fun.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.