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.

The best way out is always through.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Architecture is invention.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

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

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

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.