In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

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.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.