This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.