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.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

If youth knew; if age could.

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.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

Example is leadership.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.