Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

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

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.