I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Form follows function.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.