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

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Success is dependent on effort.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

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.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.