More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?