Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Food should be fun.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.