In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

Common sense is not so common.

The best way out is always through.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.