Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Work is much more fun than fun.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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.

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

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

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.