Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Success is dependent on effort.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Common sense is not so common.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.