I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

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.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.