I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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

Common sense is not so common.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Once you label me you negate me.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.