From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

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

Less is more.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.