You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.