The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

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

Form follows function.

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?