Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

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

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Work alone is noble.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.