To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

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.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

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.

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.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.