A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

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.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.