Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

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.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Clarity affords focus.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.