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

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

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

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

There is no substitute for victory.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Example is leadership.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

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

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.