I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

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

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'