I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

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

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

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.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.