The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

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.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Well begun is half done.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

I call architecture frozen music.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.