What worries you, masters you.

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.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

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

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

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.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.