Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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

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