The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.