Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Well begun is half done.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.