The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I'm always going to love my father.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.