What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

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

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.