To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

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.

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

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Success is dependent on effort.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

He that is jealous is not in love.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.