Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If youth knew; if age could.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

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

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

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

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

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

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.