I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.