There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Never mistake motion for action.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I have a Father's Day every day.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.