If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I have a Father's Day every day.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The time is always right to do what is right.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.