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

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

I shut my eyes in order to see.