In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

To be is to do.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

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.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Less is more.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.