So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

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

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.

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

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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.'

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.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.